Draw with me

Danny Gregory from Sketchbook Skool does a thing called "Draw with me" every Thursday morning. Because he's in New York, he does it at noon but it airs here on the left coast at 9:00, which is usually too early for me to be up and aware enough to remember to tune in. But fortunately it is archived so you can do it later if you want.

Most times, I have something else I want to paint that day, so I don't get into it. Also, sometimes he's really disorganized and I get tired of waiting for him to get started, and wander off. But today he actually spent part of the time talking about how he's turning over a new leaf, that DWM will now be organized ahead of time and he will actually put out the images from which we are going to draw on the day before via email or post them on Facebook, so it will be more relaxing for everyone, which I liked. And today's subject was dogs, which I also liked!

Danny was drawing with a brush pen, so I decided to try that too. I didn't have the one he was using, which seemed blacker, thicker, and more flexible, but I did have a Pitt pen in warm gray with a somewhat flexible brush-shaped tip, so I went with that. It was fun to draw with a different size and flexibility than my usual Uniball!

Danny added color afterwards using Inktense pencils with a water brush, but I don't have but one color of those, so I used regular watercolor. And although the dog page was a sixpack, for my #6 I decided instead to include Danny making faces as he attempted to "smile" like Terry (the dog above in the middle) was doing. Screen shot is a wonderful feature, isn't it?

So, here are the dogs...and Danny.

Faber Castell Pitt pen, warm gray; various watercolors; Bee multi-media sketchbook.