andy gets to play

I found this teapot at Peet’s, then I drew it. What I like is that it looks like a teapot, yet not EXACTLY the teapot that was in front of me.

It was time to do a more detailed drawing from The Creative License book. I was allowed to eye things up this time and look at what I was drawing. After the tree I wanted to quit, though I managed to fight the urge and follow through. I’m glad I did!

This was at first frustrating and then really neat to finish. Another assignment from The Creative License book where there is very little—and more opportunity to start looking at what I’m drawing.

This was a book shelf at Javarama in Alameda.

Unfortunately, this is the only size I have of this for now. It’s an odd painting for an assigment in college. I think I took the advice of Nick Jacques classmate then, painter/professor now and that is why it’s so weird. Hi Nick.

This was the second in a series of an unknown quantity (now two) back in 2003 when I was remembering how to paint.

PS. I need to find the photographer and give them credit.

I thougth this was a great photo and wanted to copy it with pastels. It hangs in my mothers house to this day—right ma?

I thought this was a cool picture of an old person, with all the wrinkles and what not.

This was an oil painting I did, again from a photo.

Big sis was my role model…living out in California…so cool! So I did a portrait of her. The symbol at the top was a tatoo she got back then, when she was about 20—something about life and creativity, can’t remember.

Another pastel from high school. I used to have a fascination with windows looking inside of a space. Maybe I still do…