Meet the Drawing Group

I've never been part of a drawing group but when I heard it was rather casual

and was meeting at the Grand Hotel Saloon in Old Bisbee, I decided to join in.

I'd done my exercise which you can see in my last post and we all brought

some pieces to work on too.

There was some live music to enjoy as well.

It was a small group just three of us.

This is Barbara who doesn't consider herself an artist

but she makes these wonderful "cake" assemblages.

Here's our friend Julio wearing one on his 69th birthday 

at the Screaming Banshee Pizza restaurant.

I got to see some more of her "cakes" across the street from the saloon where her husband

has a studio with some  of his magnificent sculpture/assemblages.

Liz Hampton Derivan is a photographer and encaustic artist.

Have a visit to her  blog here. I couldn't show her most recent encaustic

 that she was showing us because she's putting it in for a submission and can't publish it.

I will tell you it's luminescent and wonderful.

Here's her eyedropper inking.

I really like the way it turned out!

Inking Portraits and an Art Lab

I was invited to join some other local artists for an art lab.

They'll be meeting at the historic Grand Saloon in Bisbee.

Happens to be Bloody Mary Sunday as well.

Good thing I did my exercise beforehand.

We were to choose a picture

as a model for our pieces.

And then apply ink with an eye dropper.

my ink happened to be packaged that way.

( remember my whole box of inks from the garage sale?)

I used watercolor paper.

And blot it with a piece of toilet paper.

And color it if you like.

I used watercolor crayons

They had different personalities.

Sepia marker and watercolor pencil.

Hey, I was painting with an eye dropper, remember!

Circus clown or scullery maid?

( I kind of like this one, actually)

I saved the worst for last

No wonder she looks depressed...