view over cavanaugh

This was a recent commission for a friend's mom's boyfriend who is a rocket scientist/bull rider.
What do you get the man who has it all? A portrait of his plane, of course.

nadir malfunction

Well, I got the extension.
This is what I came up with.
I hope they like it. These last two drawings were pretty complex.

lovejoy looking west

I was commissioned to draw two images over the weekend, but I spent so much time on this one that I haven't started the other, yet. Now it's too late to start. I hope they don't mind if I ask for a day's extension to do the other one. I mean, look! It's gorgeous!
The problem was, I used too small of a pen, so it took too much time to fill in the detail. I had too much room to work with, I guess.

The lure of the open road

Well, the wedding took all my creative energy, but the wedding is over now. It was beautiful and wonderful and perfect and all that, but now my drawing is all rusty.

the view *outside*

I did another drawing of my view at work today. This time I sat outside and stared at the REI building. I wish we had more public art and less public advertisements. From what I gather -- and I must gather this information, not only as a public record, but because the building was finished before I moved to Portland -- the REI building sits on the site of the original Dignity Village that the city moved out by the airport so people in their condos wouldn't have to look at a city of tents beneath the overpass.

loading up and moving out

there and them

This was taken at nw 14th and pettygrove
across from cash 'n carry.
I love drawing the centennial mills water tower.
These people are somehow related to me. I think they are my great-great grandparents on my mom's dad's dad's side. Their faces got a little wonky. His face slid off his head, and she's got the gout -- and a belly-ache, apparently.

thirty-six

Part of our goal of self-reliance and totally sustainable living is, of course, to buy only locally-made goods. I'm always on a quest to find the perfect art materials anyway, so we went to Collage, an arts and crafts store up on 45th and Woodstock.

The ink I've been using was made in Beaverton and so is my paper, actually. The paper brand is made by the Bee Paper Company, and even though it claims to be designed with Manga artists using Copic markers in mind, it suits my needs. Pencil erases easily, the inks and gouache neither bleed nor feather, and the paper scans in as a bright, pure, white.

Now, if I could find some locally manufactured nibs that were worth a damn, I'd be set!

Day Twenty-Seven

We took a roadtrip down to the Southern Coast. I thought I'd draw the whole way, but it was just too bumpy. I lost interest pretty quickly.

Day Twenty-One

Derek and Tallia used to live here.
This was Sequoia Jade's first home.

Day Seventeen

This is from the lower pedestrian walkway on the Steel Bridge.
I hear that Amazon.com couldn't fit in those silos.

Day Sixteen

I took the source photo while on a roadtrip a few years back.
I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in eastern California or Utah.
Or Wyoming.

Day Fifteen

se morisson and grand

Day Seven

image search: old tractor

Day Two