Blown Away

One day last week the forecast said, Southwest winds 25-35mph with gusts as high as 60.

I stayed inside.  In fact, the forecast actually told us to stay indoors if possible, and to keep away from windows.  Never had that in the warnings before.  Turned out to be less dramatic than that, with one roof shingle making its way off the roof and into the backyard, and one plastic garbage bag from across the street making its way onto my front yard.  Otherwise, we survived!

I got a lot of drawing done that day!  I decided to return to colored pencils for a rendering of this pic, which is the ONLY officially released photo from the filming of Good Omens Series 2:

The drawing turned out okay, though I'm only about 75% happy with it.  That's all right.  Next year sometime there should be LOTS of new images to try out, when the second series finally airs.  Sigh.

I did take some in-progress pics which some people enjoy seeing, so here they are.  This is Aziraphale in many layers of unblended colored pencil:

And here he is with the left half blended, using a bristle brush and baby oil:

And here he is completely blended, though not yet burnished (as in the final piece above).  

Then we had our Zoom sessions.  This is a medieval Spanish street view, using ink, watercolor, and gouache on toned paper:

I have no idea where the photo ref for this was taken.  I painted whatever/wherever it is in just watercolor:

For more artistic fun, one of the group was working on a complex scene of mountains and icebergs and wanted advice on how to paint the shadowed areas, so I decided to paint it, too, to see if I could figure that out.  For that one major shadowed area between the mountain and the middle iceberg, I just painted it first with the same colors as the non-shadowed mountain, then let that dry, and then glazed over the bottom area with a gray-blue-lavender wash. Seemed to work fine.

Last but hardly least, we had another wiener walk on Saturday, and FOUR new dogs turned up.  Here they are next to Truman:

Pippin got to greet his girlfriend Madison:

They are always so adorable together!

That's all for now.  Have a great week out there, everyone!