They are talking about Urban Sketching

This week I came across an artist’s work that I wasn’t familiar with. Her name is Pat Southern-Pearce and she is from the United Kingdom. I love her work. Prolific as can be with really beautiful drawings and all of them decorated with her fantastic calligraphy as well. She works with the Urban Sketcher organization and does workshops on Sketching around the globe. Pat Southern-Pearce has her stuff here on Pinterest.

Urban Sketchers are a group of artists around the world that work from life instead of from photographic reference. You work with chapters that are available across the country to record using visual storytelling, what you actually see at your location. If something is beaten up – you draw it as it appears. If you were working Plein Air you might edit and leave out powerlines, etc. With Urban Sketching, you record it as you see without alteration. Each artist’s viewpoint and hand are different so you will still get some very different images. 

I’m an illustrator, not an Urban Sketcher yet, but with their philosophy, I drew the image with the palm trees out my back apartment window. Rooves looking down Dodge – just past the intersection with East Second Street. It was a grey day following rain this morning. I took my sketchbook and refueled the rapidograph and started drawing. It’s a bit stiff but as I do this sort of drawing more and more often I’d hope that my personal drawing shorthand and tools will improve. 

Inspired by what I saw, I look forward to hopefully locating some other artists to go draw with. Out of the elements… The intense Summer heat. We’ll see.

A Complication of Digital Art… visibility

When you work digitally you have a piece that naps on your hard drive or storage device until called for. People don’t get to discover the actual piece of artwork that you can hold in your hands. The piece here is a drawing that I did in 2016 but has never been output. A friend is going to try to get it reproduced for me. I’d love to have it kicking around. Somebody might even see it and buy one. How about that? Someone might figure out that I can draw you anything that you might want. Commission work is awesome. Always ready to hear from you. I’m as far away as your phone or your computer and looking for work.

Last week a nice fellow from Norway contacted me to obtain rights to use a drawing that he had seen on FineArtAmerica. We came to an agreement and it will be used for commercial purposes overseas. When the usage is in fact underway I’ll let those of you following my blog know where they can see it or even buy it.

I’m pretty enthused about seeing the Tractor reproduced large. The original was about 60 inches wide at my working resolution of 300 dpi. I’m looking for an Illustrator’s Representative in New York City. If you’d like to sell my work to magazines, newspapers and the like… Get in touch with me at the BucksArtist Gmail address. And just a reminder that my drawings are available at Fine Art America by clicking here. Nothing will happen except you’ll be able to see how my art might look on your wall. A good friend of mine, Bill Oakes – also in Tucson, has requested that I head SouthWest in my drawing topics and I do plan to do just that. Spanish Missions, rattlesnakes, horses, native american imagery, Chiricahuas… More Geronimo, more Cochise. Pima Indians. While I have no plans to switch to 100% one way or another… I’m going to do a lot more reflective art originals. Framing costs a bundle though. It will all even out. Strathmore 100% cotton plate finish Illustration board and a rapidograph are my favorite things. Scritch, scritch, scritch…

 

Trip to the Art Supply store…

Needed to go get a couple art things this morning. Did a search on all the Art Supply stores in Tucson, AZ on Easter and finally got around to going this morning. Went to Arizona Art Supply up on North Oracle between Wetmore & Limberlost. Blond lady with pink hair helped me. Very pleasant. Grabbed a three pen set of Black Sakura – Micron Drawing Pens. Sizes – 01 (.25MM), 03 (.35MM), .05 (45MM). For fair balance I also bought a Uchida – LePen Drawing – Black 0.03 Technical Drawing Pen. I’ve made many miles of lines with earlier versions of LePen in the advertising agencies back East. Bought a Canson Sketchbook 9 x 12 inches for drawing on a smooth surface. Sixty sheets in that book. Looking forward to sliding that pen around and losing myself in my work here in Tucson.

Going through cycles with the drawings. Started by doing Scrimshaw on Whale’s Teeth. Went to a Crow Quill dip pen. Adopted technical pens of all sorts before, during and after Art School at Parsons. Always drew on Strathmore Illustration that was all rag with a nice plate finish. I the past few years I’ve enjoyed drawing on a Wacom graphics tablet – using a program called Painter. It feels totally right compared to working with a Faber Castell Technical Pen. I even rolled the barrel every so often to clean the tip of the pen. I drew with a Fountain Pen for a while and liked it. I didn’t commit to it though as the manufacturer/distributor in NJ wouldn’t answer my emails about the ink properties and how to obtain more. Stainless Steel Fountain Pens with two refills under $5. Model V301.

Now I’m going back to a Micron pen on real paper and seeing how I like it. Looks good to me. Things that I’m looking for – a dense black, no smearing, no offsetting onto my hand. Not so thin an ink that runs into paper fibers too quickly. Still waiting to move into an apartment… and once I do I plan on going back into genuine technical pens with FW ink. An awesome combination.

tomorrow

I think I’ll be moving this weekend to a spot in South Tucson. I’ve heard of it before and prior to voicing an opinion I’ll have to give it some time to see how it really is there. It is along Old Benson Highway.  I’ve been well taken care of since last September and have mentioned some of my “sheltered existence” in earlier writings. It was fortunate I was there when I took some big hits healthwise. Could have been pretty serious (for me at least) if I just went to sleep. I had friends around me that looked out for me – like Bill and Charlie. I owe them a debt. My Caseworker, Stephanie Robles, did a fine job in getting my SPDAT info where it needed to be and that was the key to this Rapid Re-Housing opportunity with Primavera.org.  God bless them all.

About to reboot my Artistic self that has been hard aground since last September. When you are sitting proud on top of the world – working nearly 24 hours a day, living for the weekend, paying dues for being married and raising a couple of children, you never imagine that they’ll all attack you and drain the blood from your veins someday. You’d expect someone to have your back – not be planning the most damaging shot into it. My family is like a Cicada shell jettisoned onto heavily traveled cement years back. Ground daily into fine dust that even a forensic detective would have a hard time finding with a microscope. (Like my love for them). Those people? They have to see themselves in the mirror every single day. Perpetuate a lie from Mommy that they apparently believe. Inbreeding on the Ex-Wife’s side. Check that DNA. (Theme from Deliverance) Hey, please… Prove me wrong. Not my problem. Not at all. I miss my late brother and my parents but it stops there. Even my friend in New Jersey has gone silent. Lots of dead people there in the East. I miss the paintings in the Brandywine River Museum. Wish I had one of those paintings. I will. I really will. Starting fresh in the Sonoran Desert. Ready to enjoy most minutes of most days without guilt or remorse. Done the best a man can. Hand me my pen. Thank you.

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Thank You so very much! Patronage…Yay…

An Angel bought one of my drawings of the Sunflower from FineArtAmerica/Pixels.com on Sunday. I appreciate the purchase and hope that you like it a lot. Brightened my week for sure. Thanks. Going to see a whole lot more as soon as I get my new place. I promise you. The compulsion is certainly there. Pens, paper, pencils, and a drawing board. Can’t wait. Looking for an apartment in Tucson. Desperately. A view maybe. Not too particular – just clean and in working order.

On the Move in Tucson – An Artist hunting for a new Apartment. Maybe with a view. Want a quiet neighbor?

Good Afternoon everyone. Moving in an upward direction. Kidney surgery is behind me and I’m feeling so much better now. Need to locate an Apartment in the next week or so and get in before the extreme heat gets here. Probably a one BR to separate sleeping from the work area. I’d look at a 3 BR or Studio to see it though. Maybe with free WIFI? 24/7 Blues music and Art. Ready to go find a drawing board and chair for traditional work and maybe upgrade my digital as well. Ready for comfort and quiet as I bring out the best in me. Bumpy fall & winter but I’ve made it through this far and I’m in search of an Agent from Manhattan to represent me and my drawings.

Need a comfy leather chair or two and hassock with a love seat and sofa. A place with some nice light and the ability to look outside without some creep looking back in at me. Know a place like that in Tucson? Write me or call me. (bucksartist@gmail.com) or leave me a message on my cell. 520 338-5609. Coffeemaker and a coffee table.

I am getting back to normal after last July’s health crisis. The Bill that you know and like has returned after Heart Attack, Clots, Kidney Stones and a general reformatting. I feel quite good. Much stronger. Been reading lots of James Patterson books and have gotten my stuff together. Nicer out by the day with good things to look forward to. Yes.

 

That visit to the Air & Space Museum was a lot of fun. Still editing my video and graphics. Started drawing a Constellation. Classic retro design. Trans World Airlines.

Standing beneath an SR-71 Blackbird in the Pima Air & Space Museum. I remember a series of booms off the entire New Jersey coast. Navy claimed that they didn’t have anything to do with it… Finally, years later, it came out that they were multiple sonic booms from clandestine missions of the SR-71 returning from Soviet Airspace. Took the length of the New Jersey coast to slow down enough to land in New York state. Seriously fast.  Awesome then. Awesome now.

Hope you can see this shot Comrade??? Wow.

Making all these little lines build something visually. This week I explored Prickly Pear Cactus flowers. Came across my reference of Geronimo so I drew him.

I love doing my line drawings and they are increasing in speed as I go. I am enjoying putting images together of fleeting objects such as flowers that fade. Geronimo is gone but a photo remained and I drew from it. Tomorrow we are hitting 100°F. First time this year. Hand goes on autopilot these days.

Don’t skimp on the Syrup…

Still loving pancakes. Absolutely loving pancakes. They are the best. I made pancakes for breakfast on Saturday.  They just seem to come out really well here. I don’t understand what it is ? Some combination of the barometer, the humidity, I don’t know. Must be the altitude here… seems to affect the way the pancakes turn out. Then again that’s combined with the viscosity of the batter, the surface of the pan, the exact temperature of the burner and the visual timing on their cooking. Edges losing some gloss. Bubbles popping.  So many factors. If you don’t have a good syrup though… you can make it all for nothing.  I recommend Aunt Jemima’s Buttery flavor. Sure makes a difference.