Beetle Love

Some beetle sketches from many moons ago.

Sketchbook Fun – Beetle Sketches

Sketchbook Fun – Cicada (Ayuthia spectabilis)

Some fun in my sketchbook this morning

Common names, Ghost Cicada and Milky Cicada

from Thailand

Sketchbook Fun

Some sketchbook drawings done over the past couple months.

The blue flowers are Lobelia.  All are painted with gouache. Notice the beetle leg peeking into the lily drawing.

Sweet Potato Vine

After watching for a few weeks as an organic sweet potato sprouted and grew leaves on my kitchen counter, I finally planted it outside in a pot.  This is what it looked like a few days ago, but today it’s 3x bigger.

Sketchbook Fun – Hibiscus

Hibiscus study drawn with black fountain pen. Color added with Prismacolor  colored pencil.

Sketchbook Fun with Lilliputian Girls

Lilliputians are the little people who appear and reside in my sketchbooks.  Here are some sketchbook Lilliputian girls drawn over the past few months, all done with Copic and Prismacolor markers.

Sketchbook Fun with Arachnids

Some spider drawings done with Platinum Carbon fountain pen in toned Canson sketchbook.  These are for a friend and fellow blogger, Inari, who drew a beautiful spider for me.  Check out, “what’s on the drawing board?” at  Inari Designs

Sketchbook Fun with Wasps

Some wasp drawings drawn with a Platinum Carbon fountain pen.

Sketchbook Fun with Naked Lilliputians and Jambi Love

 
Lilliputians are the little people that I draw in my sketchbook. Most of the time they are naked and sometimes two-headed.