The Leo Shop at Leo Carrillo State Park
August Theme Challenge! Things found while walking
latest 'skines
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2010May 27permalink 7
Hi this is my first post.
Sketched at lunchtime, at a bus stop in the Elephant and Castle, London. Pencil and fine liner, coloured with markers when I got home. -
2010May 27permalink 11
tags: grand bazaar | istanbul
Istanbul, Turkey. I visited the city last weekend. A sketch of the Grand Bazaar, done on location. Drawn with fountainpen and waterproof Noodlers ink.
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Training about cities.
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2010May 27permalink 12
tags: Micron pens | prismacolor
a simple sign
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2010May 27permalink 12
tags: Zebra
Zebra Outbreak - Acrylic, Ink and Gesso in a Watercolour Moleskine
This is a further experiment trying out a new product, namely “Transparent Acrylic Paint”. The original idea was to draw something which contrasted sharply between dark and light values. What better than a zebra! My drawing started life by drawing the stripes, with black ink, then washing the whole scene with the red/pink acrylic. I added the white areas with gesso afterwards and touched up some of the darks, again with the black ink, to finish the drawing.
It was only when drawing this animal that I remembered a few well-known facts about zebras. Zebras have an irrational fear of the colour pink. Upon the sight of this colour they run wild and stampede into the nearest waterhole, and then continue to drown themselves. Some zebras have also been known to go crazy if choirs of young boys are within hearing proximity. Around the 1950’s, a herd of zebras escaped from Edinburgh Zoo which, as you might know, is situated on Corstorphine Hill, here in Edinburgh. The hill was more remote in these days and the animals managed to hide and breed successfully. Now zebras are very fond of one particular thing - rhubarb. In those days, sweets (candy) were still hard to get as sugar was still rationed after WW2. Mothers used to give their children a poke (a paper bag)of poor quality sugar (more easily obtained) and a stick of rhubarb. The sour tasting rhubarb was dipped in the sugar and sucked by the youngsters. (This might explain the poor dental health at that time). It was noticed that, any child unfortunate enough to wander onto Corstorphine Hill was ambushed by the stripy beasties and their treats stolen. The good news was, as most folks know, rhubarb does something for the digestive system and the after effects helped the authority to track the zebras down. This also was made easier when someone remembered the fact that loads of noisy boys would panic the zebras into revealing themselves so the sugar/rhubarb laden kids stated to roam about in bands (Even today large groups of youths can be found roaming around Corstorphine Hill, especially after dark). Finally posters, like my drawing, were put in prominent positions on trees as it was hoped that the bright colour might unsettle the animals and cause then to reveal themselves. All this meant the zebra outbreak was soon contained and people no longer suffered from equinophobia.
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2010May 27permalink 9
tags: bus ticket collage sanga
I found an old bus ticket lying around for April 1st and decided to use that as a starting point for a collage of things i remember from the month of April 2010. Some unexpected things entered along the way
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2010May 27permalink 5
tags: death note sanga light l
I wanted to do some studies of how sunlight illuminates the face from different angles. I decided to use these two guys, who are the two main characters from a favourite anime series of mine, which got turned into the live action movie.
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2010May 27permalink 7
tags: kirbysart
Another from my bike trip. Very windy that day. This was sone while sitting on the railing on the bridge. A little unearving.
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2010May 27permalink 10
tags: fear | Vampire. miedo
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2010May 27permalink 3
tags: fantasy | fire dance | pagan ritual | standing stones
On a certain night of the full moon, a young unmarried woman may go out to the standing stones, light a bonfire and do a dance in sacrifice to the Stones, to pray for a good husband. It is said that then sometimes, the stones come to life… However, the women who have done the dance have kept resolutely silent about what EXACTLY it is that happens on those magic nights.
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2010May 27permalink 7
tags: Dino | ink | Pen | pencil | prismacolor | RAWR
RAWR!! Pen and Pencil
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2010May 27permalink 5
tags: airplane | beer | canadian | carrier compartment | exit | Flying | molson | Shachihoko | sleeping | sortie | ticket | westjet | Window
My flight ticket glued to the airplane sketching spread. Drank my first international beer (doesn’t exist in the States, and not really recommended while you are 4000 feet above ground)… It was pretty good.
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2010May 27permalink 5
tags: crescent moon | ink | night
Another Crescent Moon
Playing around with a crescent moon and then the moonbeams just grew from there.
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2010May 26permalink 30
Training before the spring flowers in our mountains around.
Watercolors.
