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I added another photo on the site taken this am—you know when you artists comment on things it is a bessing—as often an person has no one but a disinterested family member or friend to share it with—who may had nothing to say but silently look or remark “What’s that for?” It takes other creative talented souls to ’see’—-that’s for sure. So many thinkyous are due …..I know it’s supposed to be thankyous…….but ‘thinkyous’ seems like it would be part of the creative process, too…..

Fall
5.5 x 7.5 inches
Neocolor II and colored pencil on hp paper
©Ann Thompson Nemcosky

Just about one month ago it looked like this around here. Now the leaves are gone and the colors are softer. This is another of my Neocolor II studies, washed with water, then covered with dry colored pencil. And it’s been sitting around for about a month waiting to be finished, so today I did. Just clearing the decks before the Keeping an Artist’s Journal class begins next week.

blogged at  http://nemcoskyart.blogspot.com/

Berlin Wall

Can a wall stands without doors? No, it will always collapse.

Remembrance day

The eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month…do we remember?

La onzième heure du onzième jour du onzième mois…on se souvient?

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I have a new work up on my blogspot after a long absence as I am painting for a special exhibit in Eastport Maine next June. I don’t even recall how to get people to visit the site except for this great place-your past comments have kept me going and I appreciate that so very much…….here’s the address

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5×7 watercolor and pencil on Arches

Last week I began painting first thing in the morning right after breakfast — with tea of course!
5×7 watercolor and pencil on Arches

I’m trying to make this a habit.
5×7 watercolor and pencil on Arches

These are some of my “sky paintings” from last week.
5×7 watercolor and pencil on Arches

It was pretty overcast and rainy much of the time….
5×7 watercolor and pencil on Arches

“The sky is darkening like a stain; Something is going to fall like rain, And it won’t be flowers”-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
‘The Witness’.

Nov12Art, originally uploaded by CaptElaine.

I opened the back door headed to lunch and gasped, I do believe she and her baby did the same. I froze and so did they… for a long moment Moma deer and I locked eyes… I had to go so I slowly started walking, they jumped a ran a short way… not into the swampy woods… just a bit farther away… It was a magic moment for me.

I’ve had this paperweight for ages, it’s fascinating the way the bubbles are captured in the glass. I felt it was time to sketch it as part of my ongoing daily practice.

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first posted here

The theme of this book from the Carnets Baladeurs sketchbook exchange is  D’une Mer à l’Autre, (From one Sea to Another).  As I don’t live near a sea, just a river, I decided to use a photo from a trip we took to Etretat, in Normandy, last June as a basis for my drawing.  Normandy has pretty lousy weather, generally, but when the sun comes out there is no place more beautiful.  I never understood impressionist painting, really, until I lived there and experienced that glorious light. During our visit, we were incredibly spoiled – an entire weekend of perfect weather.

My father in law spent the last months of World War II in Etretat as a translator for the American Army, after having lost many family members because a bomb was dropped on his parents house.  I lived in the reconstruction of that house for 12 years, and we often went to Etretat when our children were small and scrambled over the cliffs, so this landscape is very familiar to me.

he Carnets Baladeurs sketchbook exchange is a group of generous and talented French speaking artists – it’s open to anyone who wants to join and you can do as much or as little as you like.

Nov11Art, originally uploaded by CaptElaine.

Beetle Bailey was one of my Dad’s favorite comics, he figured the artist MUST have been in the army to have done such a great job on it. I’m glad I got to see the World War II memorial when I was in Washington DC. My Mom and Dad went to the dedication ceremony.

Live Figure Drawing

I just uploaded 4 representative drawings from the 3rd Figure Drawing session I went to at the Society of Illustrators. Although they have sessions twice each week, I’m hoping to be able to go once per month. I waited so long to start live figure drawing and want to be able to continue it on a regular basis. Come visit my blog, since it takes too much time to individually transfer each image to this site

Shirley
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Nov10Art, originally uploaded by CaptElaine.

We did beach pictures tonight, and discussed ideas for hand made holiday cards…

Thought I forgot, didn’t you. Here it is Tuesday again and I do have another page from my sketchbook to share. We picked up these lovely acorn squash from the grocery last weekend. I wonder what people at the store must think as I examine produce looking for interesting shapes and color. I chose three squash, cooked two and painted the one remaining. This one was painted in my watercolor Moleskine. It was the first time I had tried cooking acorn squash and found it surprisingly easy to prepare and very tasty.

Today I spent some time looking online at various sketchbooks, sketching kits and portable organizers for art supplies. I have collected a few different sketchbooks and have so many sketching supplies that I can get overwhelmed just trying to decide what media to use and in which sketchbook to work. I would like to be more minimal with all of this. Then there is the dilemma of what to put in my sketchbook(s). Should there be a theme? Different books for different themes and media, or everything in one sketchbook? Critical decisions to consider. I love looking through my copy of Danny Gregory’s An Illustrated Life for inspiration. Also, I have signed up for Cathy Johnson’s upcoming class Keeping An Artist’s Journal. Getting myself ready. It will be lots of fun to explore this topic with a group of artists and Kate is such a great teacher. And no doubt there will be many more sketch book pages to post on Tuesdays around here.

blogged at http://nemcoskyart.blogspot.com/

A new journal page I finished last night.  In addition to the gourds (or whatever they are), I also bought a mini pumpkin and some Indian Corn.  I hope to sketch them soon.  Or maybe I’ll sketch them all together in a grouping of some sort.  We’ll see . . .

Trials and tribulations with this one. A watercolor and ink drawing of the interior of a restaurant, and the story that goes with it.

Suffice it to say – I have nothing to hide. Really..nothing. Well, mostly nothing.

You’ll just have to come to my blog and judge for yourself.

So learn from my mistakes! Please visit – for your sake!

Dan
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Okay, well, the last of the company left yesterday and I’m left with no more excuses. I have no one to blame for my procrastinating all the way until bedtime, and telling myself that tomorrow, tomorrow I will get going again! So, today, I stuck a movie in my computer, hoping something would catch my eye and make me want to hit pause. I actually forgot to hit pause though and at the end of the movie, I had to rewind. The lighting in this movie is really dark! I guess I never really noticed that until I tried to find pictures of the characters with enough light as to be recognizable. I felt out-of-practice. Like I hadn’t held a pencil since first grade.

EDM Challenge #140 Draw an envelope.

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Nov09Art, originally uploaded by CaptElaine.

I find puppy breath intoxicating… but reality sets in and I know we can’t have anymore dogs right now…. so I’ll just kiss the neighbor’s new puppy.

caterpillar-chatnille

I played with other cats…
http://bendelachanal.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/caterpillar/

The walk at Polesden Lacey is an elegant promenade with yew hedges that allowed the upper classes to walk ‘in’ the country side and enjoy the view whilst not leaving the formal gardens. Now its ususally busy with pensioners, families with young chilren in varying states of frsutration and me, cutting through on a run. I have done several versions of this view, and so far this is is my favourite.

edm #207 draw something that has a shell. This is Homer. He lives at my sister’s house in CT. Pitt Artist Brush Pens.