bythehandofbob

bythehandofbob, 9 days ago to random

Attempted distorted portrait. This is supposed to be Streisand and Kristoferson. I have nothing to say about them any more than, this is a subject I was trying to depict. My concern is how the distortion works. #watercolor

bythehandofbob, 10 days ago to random

Author L Frank Baum's birthday was May 15. Oz is a fable that plays reliably on holidays in the US. It claims there's No Place Like Home, but it's as much about restlessness and the need to leave as anything else. It's always hard to believe Dorothy is going back to that grey place. My #watercolor from 2 days ago.

bythehandofbob, 17 days ago to random

For some reason on my whiteboard a few months age, I wrote “mugs=hats”. I don’t remember why, but this finished the point this morning.

bythehandofbob, 20 days ago to random

She's got Bette Davis Eyes. Large watercolors are hard. This still has a ways to go. Nothing like a super big effort to deliver a punchline. #watercolor

bythehandofbob, 28 days ago to random

This is a #watercolor of Bobby Ingram (guitarist Molly Hatchet). A fast nimble player "flrtin with disaster". For some reason, he's also a lawyer. Like any painting I've done, it's a list of mistakes.

bythehandofbob, 1 month ago to random

A #watercolor sketch of Steve Hackett (guitarist for Genesis, a band from the 70's). Sketched this for no other reason than I'm a fan of that 70's mustache. My uncle had one, and was hip for a while. Both skethches are Hackett, several decades apart.

bythehandofbob, 1 month ago to random

After weeks nonstop deadlines, this elderly artist got a chance to hang out and draw at a coffee shop again. Felt like going home. #urbansketching

bythehandofbob, 1 month ago to random

D Boon's (minutemen) birthday would have been april 1st. He was in our town a few times, did a great show and lived his values, gone way too soon. One of the performers I feel luckiest to have seen and met. Still love "King of the Hill". My #WaterColor sketch from yesterday.

bythehandofbob, 1 month ago to random

My daily work for a job is digital now, but I always fill a few sheets of scratch paper during the day and keep them for some reason. Dinner orders, things written left handed, my face in a mirror. Almost a diary, I guess.

bythehandofbob, 1 month ago to random

My #watercolor from yesterday to honor Vivienne Westwood, who would have had a birthday Apr 9. She defined the punk look and style in the mid 70s. Punk was as visual as it was audible. The look she created changed everything.

bythehandofbob, 2 months ago to random

I made these 4 #watercolor(s) yesterday as gifts to people who helped me recently. Top left is conservatory in Seattle, then Dusty Rhodes (wrestler), then 2 beach scenes.. Each piece is 4x4 inch square

bythehandofbob, 2 months ago to random

This is an excerpt from a wordless #watercolor story I started 12 years ago and never finished :eyeroll: . Ever distrustful of the magic camera machine, I drew my left hand with my right hand, and my right hand with my left, thus the inconsistency.

bythehandofbob, 2 months ago to random

#Dune is a thing again. This is a sketch I drew whenever it came out the last time. I hope this drawing gives the subject the gravity it deserves. #pencil_sketch_real

bythehandofbob, 2 months ago to random

A #WaterColor sketch from a minute ago at Pismo Beach, ca. Just a hint of a beach-goer and dog at bottom right. Sketch was done while clutching paper in one hand against the breeze.

bythehandofbob, 2 months ago to random

This is another quick coffee shop sketch in my large accordion book. My favorite coffee shop is still going strong. #urbansketching

bythehandofbob, 2 months ago to random

Two quick coffee shop drawings from 2 different coffee shops. I love coffee. Accordion book and ink. #urbansketching

bythehandofbob, 3 months ago to random

A #watercolor painting Ive been working on. My spouse says my work has taken a dark turn. And it has. #rnapperArt I have this shot at a weird angle deliberately, since I might offer better scans later. Pete and Repeat were out in a boat. Pete fell in and who was left?

bythehandofbob, 3 months ago to random

A sketch I just made at the coffee shop. I love this handmade accordion book. #ink #urbansketching #rnapperArt

bythehandofbob, 3 months ago to random

Tomorrow, Feb 17, is Rickey Medlocke's birthday. Off/on member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, he was inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame in 2008. This is my #watercolor sketch from a minute ago.

bythehandofbob, 4 months ago to random

Sure everyone knows Rosa Parks. And yes it took absurd courage for her to defy local laws and customs. But, in the land of the free.. to oppress millions of its own citizens, and to fight century after century against their freedom. That is life in the US. My sketch from days ago. #watercolor.

bythehandofbob, 4 months ago to random

Langston Hughes' birthday is today:
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
My #watercolor from days ago.

bythehandofbob, 4 months ago to random

This is a quick sketch from the coffee shop yesterday. This one has the dissolving shapes in background courtesy of whatever alchemy happens when the paint and water mix together. This is what I love about the medium. #watercolor

bythehandofbob, 4 months ago to random

Cristobal Balenciaga's birthday was January 21. I don't know much about fashion, but I do like 20th century design history, and he did inventive clean shapes that were famous in mid-century. My #watercolor sketch from today.

bythehandofbob, 4 months ago to random

Yesterday I pulled out some old sketchbooks to take a trip back to yesteryear. These are from 2000-2002, when the earth was still young, the internet was a baby, and I was much farther from old age. #waybackMachine #rnapperArt