Silent Viewer

Hello, dear silent viewer!
Here's another portrait of my dog Cleopatra. I wonder if it's just a machine viewing my blog.  No one comments. Oh well, I will persist.  I glued newspaper text onto the page then sketched my dog.  The white is gesso. Thanks for viewing.

Big Old Sketchbook, page 151. Steve Franklin 2014.

I appreciate you.

-Steve Franklin

Sleeping Dog Dreams

Here are some more old pages. I'm trying to catch up with myself. My goal is to show old sketchbook pages and get up to date where I will post pages as I make them.  The only problem is that I keep filling up journal pages.  I really want to share.

Below are sketches of my Great Pyrenees dog "Cleopatra" sleeping and an abstract design with letters and shapes.

Big Old Sketchbook, pages 135 &136, Steve Franklin, 2014.

Big Old Sketchbook page 150. Steve Franklin, 2014.

Above is a sort of landscape looking abstract design using a pen.  I love to scribble abstract designs. It's really therapeutic to do.

Thanks for viewing.

-Steve

Airbrush Pages: 36-39

Hello, wonderful person!
Thanks for visiting this page.
Here are pages 36, 37, 38 and 39 of my old Zeta sketchbook.

Old Zeta Sketchbook pages 36 & 37. Airbrush. Steve Franklin, 2015

Above, I just started free drawing with an airbrush.  I use an Iwata Eclipse HP CS.  The brush needed cleaning, but I just wanted to continue working with it.  I use Golden High Flow acrylics mixed with Golden Airbrush Transparent Extender. Since the colors are strong, I make them more transparent with the extender.

I haven't been using airbrush for the last week, because I've been thinking of making some sort of tent with PVC pipe and clear plastic, with a fan to blow out the paint particles.  I've been using a mask, but the last time I worked on a painting, I got carried away and noticed that the whole room was hazy from paint particles.  I thought that this would be bad for the dogs who love to hang out with me, so I decided to lay off the airbrush until I deal with this issue.

I did some research and saw everything from a giant garage painting booth for painting cars to the small table ones for people who paint scale models.  I've decided I need to make a smaller version, like the one for painting cars,  one that I can step into, like a two person phone booth size. In the meantime, I can work with other art media.

Below is my dog Annabel, my mixed breed rescue, enjoying some ice cream.  On the right, I just began doodling and mixed watercolor with colored pencil. I also added a bit of white gesso here and there.

Old Zeta Sketchbook pages 38 & 39. Airbrush. Steve Franklin, 2015.

Bye for now!

-Steve

Cleopatra

Hi.
Here are pages 30 and 31 of my old Zeta sketchbook introducing Cleopatra. Here I called her my Baby Bunny.  I usually call her Angel Bunny.

Zeta Sketchbook page 30. Steve Franklin, 2014.

Some ideas when you don't know what to draw.

Baby Bunny Cleo, Zeta Sketchbook Page 31. Steve Franklin, 2014

Cleo has soft fur.  She's like a giant teddy bear who can knock you over.  She's very affectionate and will tap me with her big paw when she wants to be petted.  If I stop, she will immediately tap me to continue.

Take care.

-Steve