I continue to work on my series of women wearing the hijab. Almost all of the references come from the Sktchy app for iPhone/iPad. I began this series as my personal statement of solidarity with those that a certain segment of the Western populations consider Other and therefore Dangerous and Undesirable. I find myself baffled by what part of "Love they neighbor as thyself" is hard to understand. But, of course, some object, "Who is my neighbor?", trying to narrow down the field.

I continue to draw/paint freehand, on my iPad Pro, using the Sketch Club app and a stylus.

I have been working on a series featuring women wearing the hijab.  Lately, I'm incorporating the hand gesture known as the Peace Sign.  This series is my mild-mannered statement against xenophobia. All created on my iPad Pro, using the Sketch Club app. Freehand digital paintings. Here are a few recent examples.

Lina

Nazifa

Nazifa

All references from the Sktchy app.  Find it at the App Store, or check out the website: http://sktchy.com

I have continued working on my series of women wearing the hijab. All but one have used references from the Sktchy app, where people from all over the world post selfies for artists to use as inspiration. I've had to do quite a bit of scrolling on that app to find the hijab! Here are a few of the most recent pieces.

And, one from life. A woman I met at the coffee shop. She agreed to pose for me after I showed her some of my work.

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I decided to do a take-off on Botticelli's famous "Birth of Venus" -- making her older, but still lovely.  I also very loosely based some of her features on my own.  Of course, as they say, every portrait is, to one degree or another, a self-portrait.  Not a "finished" piece, but more in keeping with the freshness and spontaneity of a sketch.

I love surreptitiously sketching other customers at the local coffee shop.  Perhaps it would be polite to ask them first, but people just become so self-conscious when they know they are being sketched.  So, please don't let them in on my secret...

​Here are a few recent sketches. all from life, done on my iPad Air 2, using the Sketch Club app.
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This lady was in an intense conversation.  The sketch clocks in at 41 minutes from start to finish.

This young lady was leading the singing at a college worship service, help every Sunday evening at the coffee shop.

And this young man was preparing a presentation.  

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I've really enjoyed hanging out at the local coffee shop to sketch and have my caffeine fix. Regulars know I may be sketching them, and actually enjoy the results. I try to be more covert when drawing strangers, who may be a little weirded out and become self-conscious. Here I offer a small selection of those sketches, all difital, created on my iPad, using the Sketch Club app.

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I've spent quite a lot of time at the pool and at swimming holes this summer.  Here are a few photos from these excursions.

An undeveloped lot between my favorite coffee shop and a nearby day care has been full of sunflowers lately.  So, I've taken the liberty of picking a few and sketching them on my iPad.  This first sketch is actually a store-bought Rudbeckia, which is in the sunflower family.  All the rest were picked from the lot, which has a For Sale sign on it.  This time next year, there will probably be some small business there instead.  All these were drawn on my iPad Air 2, using the Sketch Club app.

#sunflower #ipadart