Misc. sketches

NY is a fabulous place and I could have spent weeks exploring the city. These are miscellaneous sketches I made during my NY trip or from pics I took. I'm working on a watercolor from my favorite image from my trip so will be posting that as soon as I finish. With the hurricane coming in a couple hours, I'm catching up on some painting before the electricity goes out. :)

In case you heard about the 5.3 earthquake we had last night, we had no damage. Just some pics that fell off the shelf and my tool box that crashed to the floor. Thanks for your well wishes!

FYI - The barrel is from Pier 17, where they have free tango classes; the lion is outside the entrance of the police station in Little Italy. And the sextant is from the airport lounge display ... well, I only drew it because I liked the word sextant. LOL. I have no clue what a sextant is.

Mindless plane sketches

These are two more drawings I made while on the plane.

Hey, I didn't tell you that I met THE Samantha Brown, goddess of the Travel Channel, at Starbucks on Tuesday! Don't get me wrong, I'm not the oogling, "omg, can I have your autograph and please, please take a picture with me" kind of gal. I may raise an eyebrow to celebrities and they might even elicit a nod from me at the very most (we get a lot of them in HI ... celebrities, not nods) but cutie pie Samantha is definitely worthy of an introduction. We chatted a bit and I found her to be as sweet and bubbly as on television. That was definitely a NY highlight.

Ok, back to the drawings. The one on the bottom was drawn with my trusty micron pen ... and the other with my 2B pencil and I think some 6B for the darker shading. Unfortunately, I used my watercolor paper, which is really rough so I couldn't manage the pencil as well as I like. But, it was still a fun challenge.

Skymall Lions

You too can own a wonderful pair of stone lions for the unbelievable price of $350 or thereabouts through Delta's skymall catalog! They are actually more lifelike than the closeup shown here so don't base your decision to have these incredible replicas front your estate entrance on my drawings. I did mention that I had trouble drawing cats, didn't I? :)

Banyan Tree

Banyan trees are just fun trees to draw. This is one at Wailoa State Park. It's found at one end of the park, where I take Kanoe for a walk and watch people fishing for mullet or papio.