kaspired

I went to a Concorse D'Elegance type car show Sunday. Lots of way cool cars, here are only a few....

Survived the July Fourth holiday. It was strangely quiet here. With the drought and high fire danger fireworks were strictly discouraged. I only heard one “Pop!”. I haven’t watched the news yet today, so I don’t know how much mayhem happened in the outside world. But a neighbor did play the Star-Spangled Banner on a trumpet, Jimi Hendrix style. Neighbor needs more practice. I never got my act together as far as drawing goes. I did start one but spent more time staring at it than coloring. Let me leave two sketches. I won’t say anything about either, but one is a practice for the current drawing the other is next in line. I’m not even disclosing their names. One sketch is screamingly obvious; the other is more obscure. Just a tiny detail on the second: I spent two hours on that. This is a real flesh and blood person not a cartoon. Since (I last looked) people don’t have an outline I tried to stay away from using ‘em. I was moderately successful…

A sketch! Let's begin there. A study of human Loona: Last week was fairly interesting. This will take some explaining… Near my work is a community garden. Every year donors have their names engraved into the bricks in the central gazebo. Every year since the beginning of time I’ve been the poor schmoe that has the privilege to etch the names. To be more correct the names are bead blasted into the bricks. It's awful work! Boring, tedious, with all of the blast media flying around my world becomes grey. I see grey, I hear grey, I smell grey. And I can't make any mistakes. It is carved into stone after all. It requires maybe 45 minutes to blast one brick. This year there were eleven donor names to blast. I did nine of them (I do have a helper). Also the temperature was over 100 degrees while we worked for two days. Miserable, I just hate it. But the only good thing is the client is super appreciative of all the hard work. She's great. She's so good, she GAVE me a brick all my