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A self portrait of sorts. Currently in the mental market to take on some musical compositions this summer, gain some serious insight and most importantly, learn from the ground up all that I should have learned all those years ago…

Have been drawing, but actually too busy to post.  Here I am yet again almost too busy to post for the night. Trying to wrap up all my outstanding projects and client work. This sketch is from a couple of…

So, here we are again.  I've been busy between a great day job working in both an art and music department and enjoying my first ceramics class.  It's been incredible.  Things haven't quite settled down enough but they are getting…

Spending nearly all my drawing hours working on the new project that will be taking up much of the year.  One the great things about it is that it's a serious brain wrap that comes with all the mental sit…

Well, it's been long while since I've posted. I was homebound with the flu and then simply busy catching up : )  I've been drawing up a storm working on a massive drawing/painting project.  It's the one I keep referring…

Well, I've had a crazy a week, so am a bit discombobulated.  I'm also hyper focused on this musical score I'm visually dissecting with a few other works with the finest tooth comb I own... thus I'm up all hours…

I’m currently head deep within an amazing project drawing and painting music.  As with the last post on this project, this image is about it’s impact my journey during this new and expansive time.  This is one of the most…

Currently in the middle of working out some visualized orchestrations: delineating sounds, moments, measures etc... I could go on an on but all in due time.  Today's work, oddly enough is not one of them at all, LOL, it is…

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwn.  Well, it's nearly 6:am and I really should be in bed, however I seemed to have had the drawing bug.  Too tired to give this nice working... its a simple sketch. This quick effort is the original for a work…

Well it's that time of year again... The Holidays!!! Oh Joy! Actually there is a lot of joy to be had, but there is also all the running around meeting and greeting, gift giving and sitting, drinking and thinking and…

Still galavanting away on my quest to integrate these new dark areas into my architecture.  Designing is easy, the tones however are still in flux. Perhaps color is the answer? Blue? Red? Another consideration for yet another day. I do…

Well, It's 4:00 am and I'm a bit tired.  Today's drawing is yet another test.  This time, just playing with density.  I'm not as concerned with spaces and shapes this go around.  Without a doubt this would have been a…

Testing my new media.  Today... wrong paper.  LOL.  I'd say I'm mostly annoyed but I'm really just 'muchly' annoyed, mostly because I can easily turn this into an oil painting.  That is the great thing about sketching... it's honestly meant…

I have finally found my proverbial horse.  You all probably remember him... I've mentioned his running amuck after I fell off, now and again on this blog. LOL.  To be honest, I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever see…

The political environment currently boasts a big top cavalcade of clown school graduates wrestling musical chairs from one another on the one side, while the other is enjoying a good cup of coffee over the Sunday Times.  November 8th is…

It's been a long while since I've drawn a word.  (https://brittconley.com/2011/01/24/aplomb/) Every so often I get one under my skin and it prods me all day.  The other day it was Alabaster... the delicacy, the lyricism, the shell like fragile line..…

I am finally and firmly sitting on a lovely purple plush velvety chair in my home office, at a beautiful desk drawing.  For those of you who have followed my trials and tribulations over the past couple of years, I…

More often than not my lovely sister sees all sorts of animals in my work that are not meant to be there : ).  Today, however, I have drawn my favorite of the critter world: the aardvark.  It's been my…

Love has a unique fingerprint.  Copulation creates a seed belonging just to him, and her.  There are no others, it is private, it is open and shared and carried and born.  It is love, it is human, it is beauty…

Today's drawing is the parading cavalcade of those flying the coop from jobs around America: Those  laid off  from jobs they had for 10, 15, 20, 30 years and are left walking like dressed up clowns only to find they…

At home fighting a cold today.  I guess all was not well on the Western front when I stopped the cold eez the other day... boy has it kicked back!  I am limb tired and spending most of the day…

Three days of warm comforting heat, the sounds of whisting winds from the back yard and more home cooking and the joys of stirring than I've had in a while.  Loving my new home.  The studio is still being set…

So, it's been a while.  I've just moved.  nearly two decades in the same place and with all my interests...well, lets just say I managed to accumulate a lot of stuff.  Despite paring down, an ordeal was had.  I am…

I ran into this last night while packing up more of my drawings.  This very rough and quick marker drawing is from a few years ago.  I actually love working in marker and haven't in some time.  For nearly my…

Over the past week or so I've been experimenting on several renditions of "Did gyre and gimble in the wabe."  Some are airy, some jovial, others menacing... Still deciding gyre and gimble. LOL.  I've got Wabe in one other other…

Looking out over the great hills and valleys that have been climbed and traversed, I sit atop the highest peak thus far... I can spot my proverbial horse down there... he's running amuck. I see the lake of sorrow still…

Went to see the last showing of the Calder Exhibit today at the National Portrait Gallery.  (I have included the link at the bottom of the page). It was amazing.  I had never seen his wire portraits before.  There was…

Time has flown by with such tremendous gusto that it's been all I can do to hang by its tail.  So much has been going on that getting my drawing time in has been fairly difficult... much to my chagrin…

I've been a bit under the gun with deadlines and client work for the past couple of weeks and thus have not had a full drawing session in some time.  Today's sketch developed from the simple lure of self entertainment…

Personally I'd call it Kinder-Ploinken but this is not my drawing to name.  During the entire 17 years I've been with my husband and out of the hundreds of drawings that have been made, he has only ever asked for…

I really enjoyed working on the last Kiss drawing.  Love the space, the swirling line and the dance of it all.  A few days ago an offer came in to do something for a possible exhibiting opportunity ... paint two…

For International Kissing Day I have a kiss.  I almost always draw anything to do with the mouth vertically and therefore, this goes right with the rest.  We have our molars, our tongues intertwined and a few swizzles of zing…

Left to my own devices I like to skip about from thought to thought and drawing to drawing.  Today I just wanted to have fun.  Here we have our forest with numerous fanciful creatures about, including a peacock up in…

One of the reasons my posts have significantly slowed down of late is that I've been packing up 16 years of my world.  I was supposed to move in just a couple of weeks but we all received a reprieve…

I've been a bit busy but am still managing to get my drawing in here, there and just about everywhere I can.  Today I was able to work on this while monitoring Open Sketchbook Time at school.  It's a couple…

I managed to finally arrive at the top of the stairs landing of our new Neighbor's home with all that my little five year old self could muster for the room tour when there it was... radiantly beaming 'ALL' that…

I have a lot of irons in the fire with my daily life... I have this and that to do and right now there is an overwhelming amount of this and that.  The great thing about me and art is…