Aaron's Dragon

Today I am at Christine's place babysitting Aaron. We played with various of his toys until suppertime.

After supper he got himself ready for bed and we settled down on the couch to draw until his dad came from work to put him to bed.

Aaron asked if I would draw a dragon for him to put on his wall. So I asked him what kind of dragon he wanted an he and he told me it had to have horns, big green eyes, long claws on its feet, a long tail and its scales had to be blue.














Once he approved of the drawing, I started to colour in the horns, while Aaron picked out the colour for the dragon's eyes.

Next he gave me a pink pencil to do her nostrils, and he gave me a dark brown pencil for the claws.

Lastly, he picked out the blue for the dragon's body and I started colouring in the dragon's body when his dad came home.

I offered to finish colouring the dragon before I left to go home, but he insisted on taking it to his room with him and put it by his bed.

Mine! 1

Today we had a temperature of 72F (22C) with the humidity making it feel like 84F (29C) but we will have rain for most of the day which means I do not have to water my garden.

I wanted to work on a still life drawing today, so I set up one of my stuffed toys in this case a dragon and added a few blocks to make it interesting.















It didn't take very long to get the drawing of the dragon finished.

From there I started adding in the various blocks to complete the drawing. The last thing I did was to curve the dragon's tail around the blocks making him look possessive.

Porcelain and Brass - Three Works in Progress

This morning I had to shovel my vehicle out from yesterday's snow storm which gave us another five inches (13cm) of snow on top of everything else that we have received so far this winter before I could go to the still life class at KAGS this morning.

We had a lovely display of Oriental porcelain, pottery, brass items and a sculpture of a five headed dragon. With such a multitude of interesting subject matter I decided to break it down into three separate pieces.

The first was of Oriental porcelain, a clay tea pot and a fan set on a red and gold patterned cloth.

Oriental Pottery

The next sketch was of the section with the two brass bowls with a black lacquered porcelain vase that was inlaid with ivory.

I didn't like the position of the vase so I took artist's licence and moved it over.

I look forward to painting the reflected red from the cloth into the brass.

Brass and Porcelain

The final sketch that I started but didn't have time to finish was of a pewter plate, the small brass bowl and the dragon sculpture.














Brass, Pewter and Dragons

After lunch I sat the Abstracting from Life show at the Gallery in the afternoon before returning home.

I will post these pieces after the drawings are completed and I have started to apply paint.

Clarice

A number of years ago I wrote a children's book about a baby dragon called Clarice.

This is a quick sketch on a scrap piece of watercolour paper, which I did of the baby dragon while I wrote the story.

I will need at least another 12 to 16 drawings for the book as I finish editing it and set the pages.

I will post more of these sketches as I complete the ones for each page of the book.

The Dragon

Every so often I still work with carving pictures in leather and painting or staining them.

The Dragon is an 18" x 18” carved leather painting.

Congratulations to returning collector Mrs. Debbie Hoey of Lakefield, Ontario on her selection of this picture.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and look at the artwork.