Forest Park Metro Train

Forest Park Metro Platform Sketches

Color Studies - iPad/Brushes

Coffee Shop Sketching

Rough Sketch

Refined Sketch

View Two

A change of characters on the stage.

Digital Work In Progress

Composition Sketching

Composition Tumbnail Sketches

Large Composition Sketch

Dinner at Steak n' Shake

Eating at Steak n' Shake

Watching the Cardinals Play The Redsox at SOHA Bar

Drawing Style 1

A Picture of the Scene

Drawing Style 2

The Brewbadours Play at Mokabe's

The Brewbadours

Above is a style that I draw in sometimes when there is much motion. However I am not entirely satisfied with the sketch. I think that I would like to do the same but with a very light marker and then come in with an ink pen. Or, perhaps a lively pencil gesture and then pen drawing over the top.

A Youtube video of the Brewbadours is below. Currently,they play every Sunday at Mokabe's morning buffet breakfast.

Rock N' Roll Marathon

As the runners came past Tower Grove Park on Magnolia, I stood about halfway through the park on the south side of the road drawing a picture of the scene as I could.

Rock N' Roll Marathon - A Drawing

The Passing Runners

The Painted City Book (Session atThe Zoo)

A good sized group of us from the Meetup Group showed up to the Zoo on Saturday to draw the animals.

Here are some of my sketches:

Camels and Zebras

Seal Enclosure at the Zoo
and a few sketches from Sunday

Some pictures from the trip:

Watercolor - Southwest Diner

Southwest Diner

Southwest Diner

At Breakfast

Soulard Musican

Soulard Musician

Thumbnail Sketches

started with pen

colored and annotated digitally

Soulard People

In the examples below I am just playing with the contrast of my shadow layers. I have three of them. At top they are like 25%, 50% and 100%. In the middle they are closer to 50%,75% 100%. At bottom, they are 20%, 40% 60%.

medium contrast (above)

stronger contrast (above)

in a higher key (above)

sans line drawing

viewing all of the layers

I do feel a ned to put down the iPad and also take up the pen again as well. I don't want to get rusty. Here is another one from Soulard. This one has a bit of textured brush also.

Hi-Pointe Theatre

Hi-Pointe Theatre

Hi-Point Theatre

Ted Drewe's

Drawing at Bevo Mill

This (digital sketch at top) was done all live on the spot. I may take it a bit further at home in the studio. It was drawn on an iPad in Brushes 3.0.

Update 2014-10-16:

Here below are two watercolor illustrations that I commissioned other artists to do based on my sketches and reference materials.

The first one is by a Lois M.

This second painting below is by Ayushi B.

Melissa Cannon at Shameless Grounds

Melissa Cannon

Allen Kriegshauser drawing Melissa

A good sized group of artists

A Day of Urban Sketching