A small sketch of a friend’s kitchen wall.
Rotary Phone
November 1, 2009 at 7:11 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, artist, book, calendar, doodle, ink, kitchen, life, line, paper, pen, phone, push pin, rotary, scratch, shadow, skecth, wall
Sketchy Dames
September 28, 2009 at 12:48 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, artist, ashmen, black, broom, bussle, clean, draw, drawn, dress, eyes, girls, hair, headband, ink, jen, life, paper, pen, portrait, pretty, rigid, rough, self, skecth, skecthbook, white, wind, witch, women
I try to keep my sketchbook exclusively to drawings from life, but sometimes pretty women just slip out.
The People on the Bus
September 15, 2009 at 8:40 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, artist, bus, drawing, driver, ink, life, new jersey, paper, pen, people, sketch, sketchbook, striped hat, transit, transportation, travel
I’ve always been fond of public transportation. Thank you, New Jersey Transit, for giving me the opportunity to draw the inside of one of your nice buses.
Hospitality
September 7, 2009 at 5:52 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, artist, bedroom, black, curtain, ds, hat, ink, nintendo, paper, pen, poster, remote, rockband, sketch, soda, tc, white, wii, window, wire, xbox360
The room of a new friend.
A Day at the Beach
August 24, 2009 at 5:45 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, artist, beach, bird, boat, book, day, draw, drawing, flip flops, fun, gull, life, new jersey, NJ, ocean, paper, pen, sand, sea, shore, shovel, skecth, sketching, sky, sun, vacation
A half buried shovel, a pair of flip flops belonging to the famous John Baccaro, and a Brigantine life guard boat. Results of a sunny day sketching at the New Jersey shore.
I Remember That.
August 16, 2009 at 9:12 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: adult, art, artist, barbequee, black, blog, book, draw, drawing, gesture, graduation, high, ink, interaction, life, page, paper, party, pen, pool, school, sketch, summer, teens, white
This drawing was done at a high school graduation party I attended earlier this summer. I was the creepy adult sitting quietly and drawing the teenagers’ table. It’s OK though, because only other uncool grown ups like myself even noticed.
Once a Year
August 10, 2009 at 6:28 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, artist, beach, beatles, black, draw, drawing, faces, family, figure, gesture, gina, hey jude, ink, karaoke, pen, pinto, profiles, ramano, sketch, vactaion, white
Last week, I was invited to the Romano/Pinto annual beach house karaoke night. These are the resulting gesture drawings. The most complete drawing is of the back of a seven year old girl wearing a pair of shorts. She is transfixed and singing “Hey Jude”. Those “na na”s sure do go on for a while.
Velvet Eggs
July 25, 2009 at 7:09 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, still life, ink, paper, fabric, pen, book, drawing, artist, vase, draw, egg, jen, ashmen, sketchm study, mark making, stonehenge, velvet
A sketch of a round vase, velvet, and four eggs on a table.
A Corner
July 20, 2009 at 4:40 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: sketch, art, ink, paper, pen, book, apartment, drawing, artist, draw, wall, jen, ashmen, door, home, corner, ceiling
It has been a while since I posted a sketch.
Boardwalk Birds and People
July 4, 2009 at 4:21 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, Atlantic City, beach, birds, boardwalk, doodle, drawing, glasses, ink, jen ashmen, life, men, new jersey, paper, pen, people, portrait, seagulls, shore, sketchbook, sun, women
This is a nice summery sketch for this fourth of July Saturday. People and birds on the New Jersey boardwalk in Atlantic City.
