When artists have too much time on their hands - they do ink - free hand and no pencil sketch before hand. Use tick marks to locate you primary subject, then sketch - does not always turn out to be a a masterpiece - but hey it only took 6hours. Micron ink pens 0.01, 0.03, and 0.05 - light bristol board sketch pad - 9x12 inches. Photo by Amy Kiley with permission.

another quick sketch for book

Feminine Legs

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More of my next book.

More time is spent on sketches for the book than on typing the instructions. Evolution of the sketching process for the "hand". 9x12" sketchbook. #F pencil, stump and eraser.

More sketches for my third book. Chapter 6 portraits

As many of you know, I am writing my third book (in the 12 months) since August 2019. This is one of the figures which was sketched (in 2 parts) for an example in chapter 3 of this current book - People and Portraits in 1-point linear Perspective. Photo by Simi Denson used with permission. Both the photo and sketch are in this book chapter 3.

couple of sketches

After cleaning out the garage and going to the dump (we can't get waste management to manage our waste) I sat for a few hours experimenting with colored pencil and pastel pencils on a few surfaces. Parchment is not good for theses two media. Neither is w/c paper - best seems to be bristol board smooth. So here's the experiments. Two things - the lady is slightly out of proportion but not by much, and the cowboy's waist should be lower. Cowboy painting - 12x16", lady 8x10" and girl's portrait - 8x10". LLL. These are only sketches for practice.

Both books published on Amazon.com

One of the things I miss about our "Art dabblers' Monday meetings" is the great interactions and sharing of ideas and techniques. The latest is the black watercolor paper by Stonehenge - cold press. I used 8x10" black paper on this plant (photo by permission of Loredana Kardia - a cool lovely young lady - whose paintings I admire). This is just a sketch. I will also be trying different colors (not regular watercolors - they are too transparent) from the ones I bought for this purpose. Oh and my 2nd book was just published by amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/author/joehagarty)

even more left-over paint

More old paint uses

What artists do with left-over paint. They color their pencil sketches from years and years ago.

Sketch in between writing, piano playing, and dating young ladies.