statue, students and teacher

Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Project

Jonathan Gandelsman (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) and Wu Man (pipa)

and other members of the Silk Road Project in concert at Chrysler Hall, Norfolk, VA, 2/25/06

How lucky was I this past Saturday to have traveled to Norfolk with my best friend and spend the day seeing some of the most talented and wonderful artists and musicians in the world!

museum madonna

museum saints

train folk

lunch at Balthazar

pipa player

Snow Lion

another quick scribble of statuary from my visit while in New York on Saturday to the Rubin Museum of Art.

Rubin Museum of Art, New York

quick trip

some doodles from my last trip to New York, heading there again tomorrow to collect a few more, bye! I'll be back on Saturday!

figure drawing class

many thanks to Rosa

for the beautiful arrangement of flowers she brought me for Valentine's Day!

hand doodle

wanted to doodle some more on this but must to bed, drawing class in the morning, 'night all!

Antique Statues

I went to the "The Richmond Academy of Medicine Alliance Foundation's 44th Benefit Antiques & Fine Arts Show" on Friday and fell in love with these statues. I couldn't afford them but at least I could bring them home in a drawing.

bird doodles

famous chairs

Funny, the maker's names seem to fit their designs! Two from the collection of chairs in The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, submitted for this week's Illustration Friday

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quick scribble of musicians at local cafe

and quickly posted, "blogger" shutting down for scheduled maintenance in 15 minutes!

sketchbook page

drawing class

It's so fun to be drawing from a model again! The bottom sketches are 2 minute gesture drawings, the top sketch a longer pose. I had a bit of a problem getting the whole figure to fit on the small pad of paper I was using, I had to shorten her legs more than they should be to compensate.

everyday matters #52 - draw a dog

Bleak House

The third episode of Charles Dickens's "Bleak House" aired tonight on PBS and as I watched the program I tried to sketch the characters faces. Pictured are Mr. Tulkinghorn, Lady Dedlock, Guppy, Esther Summerson, Richard Carstone, Krook and Smallweed (Dickens created such wonderful characters and gave them such marvelous names!) This has been a fun drawing exercise and in addition to getting me to look more closely at faces, it's also been helpful to remember who's who as there is a total of 41 characters in the story!

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drawing of drawers

Wally and Kim tagged me, here goes:

Four Jobs I’ve Had
1 telephone solicitor (for a chimney sweep)
2 telephone dispatcher
3 CIA operative (job or dream? and not even my dream!)
4 receptionist

Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over
1 Wonder Boys
2 The Princess Bride
3 A Christmas Carol (but only the musical version with Albert Finney as Scrooge)
4 Henry V with Kenneth Branagh

Four Places I’ve Lived
1 Louisville, Kentucky
2 West Palm Beach, Florida
3 Richmond, Virginia
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Four TV Shows I Love
1 Angel
2 Firefly ((My BDH's!)
3 Lost
4 PBS Bleak House (really loving this, 3rd episode tomorrow, can't wait!)

Four Places I’ve Vacationed
1 San Francisco, CA
2 New York, New York
3 Boston, MA
4 Philadelphia, PA

Four of My Favorite Dishes
1 my friend Rosa's vegetables
2 and her salads
3 roasted brussels sprouts from Craft in N.Y.
4 ice cream

Four Sites I Visit Almost Daily
1 the hosses
2 Annie Bissett
3 illustration sites that inspire me
4 Flickr

Four Places I Would Rather Be Now
1 Edgar Meyer concert
2 Yo-Yo Ma concert
3 Chris Thile concert
4 concert

Four Bloggers I Am Tagging
1 Paula Becker (Whatever-ings)
2 Annie Bissett (Woodblock Dreams)
3 Harry Hindmarsh
4 Lydia (cootie garage)

blind contour first friday

oops, I goofed, horse without a buggy, oh well, buggy blind contours can be found at "Inkfinger", go see!

Richmond Dairy Co. Building

Richmond Dairy Co. Building for "Everyday Matters" week #41 assignment - draw a city landmark

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you can see a photo of the building here and a back view with two corner milk bottle towers is here

Congrats to the Aquathon-ers!

Sketchbook page of Sammy and Chris, Chris is wearing his "Aquathon" tee shirt, The Richmond Times Dispatch story for the event can be found here