Stories, etc.

Steve didn't want to show up to work on time. In his office in the research wings at London's British Museum, he had been helping the renowned archeologist, Dr. Atticus Block, prepare to exhume the mummy tomb of Osiris. This coveted, seminal piece of Egyptian history had made its way to the laboratory of Dr. Block through a pile of grant letters Steve and Block had written, indefatigably, over the past seven years. Seven years Steve and Block had been planning and hoping for this acquisition, and seven years they had experienced, through the throes of professional museum protocol and dense pleas, that challenge of getting what one wants most: and in their case, it was the mummy tomb of Osiris, the great Egyptian demi-god who, while married to Nut, gave birth to Isis. Osiris was the mystical figure to whom King Tutankhamen had prayed before going to bed every night. Osiris was also believed to be the one who instituted both common sense and magic into the dynasty of

Down by the Berkeley Marina at Cesar Chavez Park there are always people flying kites. Here are two that seemed to be traveling through a wind moving with great determination. 

While I haven't been to Norway yet, I was interested in painting a watercolor of what a street, pathway, or alley would look like there. For this one, I abjectly admit to using a reference photo randomly selected from google search, something like "Norway alleyways", for this one. I used high key bluish-greys and a mildly saturated cadmium orange when making more noticeable composition parts on the left and right sides of the picture plane. 

"Ya heard?" watercolor still-life on cotton rag paper. 9x12 Here's the set-up for the watercolor still life above. Hardest part was painting the green dinosaur with the medium watercolor which can be oh so fluid. 

Single Light Source Still Life Sketch Using Prismacolor Colored Pencils

water color drum set poem

An array of figure studies  This one is from a lady model who took two ten minute poses. I drew both poses on the same page but went missing some limbs. Then I added some Mists of Avalon- background elements for the heck of it.  Male model, sketchy couple of anterior 10 minute quick studies.  Clothed model. Waitin' for a BART train.  Female model took at 20 minute lateral view pose. Drew her in with a yellow prismacolor then went back and added darker surroundings and some value on the figure.  Mannequin head with a bedsheet Posterior Female model, 10 minute study. Prismacolors. Ball point pen male posterior 15 minute study Clothed figure, 5 minute pose