INKTOBER DAY 31 - Civil So What- You named what, after whom? WTF GTFO...PLEASE VOTE

 

Happy Halloween. YA'LL A BUNCH OF #*&@%%# - Can't even grown proper facial hair to protect against the infirmary.  

INKTOBER - DAY #WGAF. Sturgill Simpson - The most outlaw thing I ever did was give a good woman a ring

...That's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean. Sturgill gets his own post. I'll post the rest of the Inktober content later. no one cares anyway. 

R.B.G.

 I heard the news - watched some of the coverage and went to bed at 7PM.  She was confirmed by a 96-3 vote during the Clinton administration. Has there been votes like that since? No, I checked. 

 

First post of 2020

 

So old man Lenin need someone to fix the top of the spire due to damage during a storm. The cross was crooked or some such.  He put the word out.  Some workman dude is like "fuck it, I can do it." So he climbs the interior to the highest window which is just at the bas or the spire. Climbs out,  and shimmies up the tapered part until he runs into the ball at the top, which looks small from the ground but is quite large in person. So he takes a rope and lassos the cross and just trusts that it will hold and climbs up, sits on the ball and fixes it.  Comes down, Lenin is almost happy, he wants to reward the man but how, money seems to easy, give him a job, fuck that.  HE GIVES THE MAN A CUP with Lenin's likeness or symbol on it and says anywhere you go in the city you drink for free.  This was cool with he dude.  But eventually he lost the cup. Of course he did.  So he tattoos the symbol onto his neck and taps his neck to the bartenders.  And now, in Russia, if you want to go drinking with your friends you make this gesture; flicking the side of your neck with your middle finger.

It's slightly lest than a year since we went to Scandinavia and the Baltics.  It takes a long time to scan stuff do to not wanting to do it and general laziness.  Can you relate to that?  Have you ever had a time in your life you didn't want to do something so you didn't do it?  

St. Peter & Paul's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, RUSSIA.  The Cathedral is architecturally famous yet it is the detailed stories about it's life that is of interest to me.  Yes, it's old and has survived sieges and rulers but have you heard about the spire? (the tall, point thing with the cross on top) 

Scandinavia & Baltics & double points for INKTOBER - I

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.” 

-Hans Christian Andersen

Rosenborg Castle - Copenhagen

Random old building - Copenhagen

Replica Medieval nut cart

Town Hall - Tallinn, Estonia

I'll post more sometime later - i just got bored of the click click click of it all...

State Fair! no Rodgers or Hammerstein...but there were some Mini-pigs and animals

Morgen says, "Are you just drawing what you want? It didn't look like that." 

Me: Yeah, I draw 'em how I sees 'em...adding some contrast now.

Morgen: You should have left the contrast out. 

Me: Let me tell you about contrast and value...

Morgen: STOP

First Beach at La Push, WA

La Push, WA and vicinity for Memorial weekend 2019.  No Wifi, no TV. Lots of beach and ocean and trees and rainforest and driftwood. 

Did a quick sketch on a postcard at the beach when the kids were cplaying with the waves.  

Did a couple more sketches/ color studies. Would have liked to do a few more but wanted to get a larger painting done in time for Michele's birthday.  Need to study the foreground value and wetness more. - The foreground should be darker/ higher contrast.  

The kids backs are to the viewer but don't need faces if you can get the shoulders and line-of-body accurate.  

Postcard.

Color and comp 1.

Color and edges study - more satisfied with wave edges in this one than final.

Fine with color, not with value. Foreground need be darker. The ground should reflect the sky hues and it does.