Cooking with gas!

I've been having the best week ever---not because everything I'm trying to do is working, but because I finally have the time to paint and draw in a sustained way! Plus, I did a 4-plus mile power walk yesterday! I'm banned from the gym by my doctor until March, so walking will have to suffice as my way to stay sane-ish and non-corpulent. I went uphill and down, pumping arms, and breathing frosty breaths for over an hour last night!

And I'm not too discouraged that two of the three watery paintings I'm working on look like mud at this point--I'll figure 'em out. It's just a matter of keeping on. And I will.

Here are two recent sketches, scenes from my town. 

The bar scene was done with Pitt Big Brush Pens, which I love! I took some with me to Bruges last month. Click back to see the hotel bar/library sketch and the carved figures sketch posted in January, if you like---they're also done with these pens. Certain pens, pencils, brushes really affect one's style and these pens are a case in point. About the second sketch: Tom Robinson' Seafood is a wonderful local establishment. I'm going tomorrow to sketch the interior and the fishmonger! I should have some water paintings to show you before very long, too, so there'll be lots to see, the good Lord willing and the creek not rising!

Comments

[Judybec]

You go girl!! keep cookin!
I'm glad you're recovering well. love these sketches!

[Laura]

Thanks for the comments and good wishes! Deborah, you haven't missed them---I'll probably just send you links to archived posts until I have time to revisit the topic properly!

[Deborah]

I love those pens too! The only one I have used is the black one - but you make me want to buy a whole set!
BTW - have I missed the studio pictures or am I just being overly-anxious to see them?
Thanks! Beautiful ARTWORK!!!
Deborah

[marly]

Like the frisky tree! And miss eating out in Chapel Hill. It's not the same here, though getting better, roundabout. Definitely miss walking there. I am too big a wimp for the deep snow walk.

Keep walking your way back into health, woman of persistence! What a grand thing persistence is--and you have it in art and life.

[Anna]

I love the airness of the tree, it really captures the season. I hope your great energy carries on into next week.

[Robyn]

That seafood joint looks wonderful, Laura. Very much looking forward to your interior sketches. These pens work a treat for you.

Don't go absolutely mad with the exercise, you'll make the rest of us look very slack indeed. Great road to recovery though.