more sketches, older and newer

Here are some new pen sketches. They appear more yellow because I scanned them...for some reason it renders the paper differently than when I took digital images. Anyhow, in the "experiments" sketch, I decided to see what happened when I drew loopy lines over a grid. In one section, the lines made something close to a landscape, with the sun and a mountain. So I decided to focus on that and add more lines. It ended up creating a fluid texture...well worth the experiment. The lines on the mountain also remind me a little of agriculture- like when you pass over farmland in a plane and the world becomes ordered and quilt-like for a few moments.

quick drawings, pugs, and crispy-ness

Had a fun holiday, complete with my first stay in a camper. Spotted pugs on 2 separate occasions, which Mike appreciated. I am slowly warming up to them, though I have always been more of a cat person.

On the 4th, we saw a reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburgh and it was the best reenactment I've seen. Huge scale, with dozens of horses, canons, and probably thousands of soldiers.
I was so fixated on the battle, though, that I neglected to put sunscreen on until it was too late. A few hours later, my shoulders were as pink as a 4th of July hotdog.