more artist that blog

you should have a look at Chuck Berk's Interactive Art Blog...... especially his how I paint post... whilst i used watercolour & pencil... i am starting to realise that the best picture aren't draw... with lines... you put the colour & shading in first.... understand the light and the darks... thats what makes the sketch work... and finally the minimum line work on the most important details only

the new look

The destruction of my blogging template has got me thinking... should i update the look of my blog.... more importantly can I do it for free and without much technical knowledge... well I might give it a try

Do you like the new look? Please leave your commenst here.....

soft rock

A delicate watercolour moment



these are somewhat unfinished and very light on the washes.... but rock girl was a wonderful model... more blue... crikey am i going through a blue period?

another thinga-me on the right hand side

i was looking at the site status and noticed that 43% of the traffic on this blog ir regulars returning... I think this is actuall very good and i thank you regular readers... and an obvious conclusion is that I am better letting you control who you want to share this sketch blog with than becoming an online advert bot myself... so i've put another "free" tool from bavenet on the right hand side... (its free because it has click boxes to get bravenet services on the form, there is no obligation to tick them)... its a little button to activate a tell a friend via email about this blog... please leave a comment if you do or don't like such tools...

on-line intermission

flowers(7),
originally uploaded by sighcl0ne.

sorry folks you want see me on the net or in thei blog for the next week or so... well you might if you know my SMS number... take care

another email to blog test

A soft pencil 4B sketch

and it worked!

not so self indulgent after all

another day with net access and yahoo playing fickle to let you in... oh well, i can at least spend my time wandering in blog land...

I used to think that blogging sketches was wierd... a kind of personlity dysfunction or something... but i know see there are other creative people out their like everydaysketch... i'm starting to feel normal... and that's a worry

learning new tricks

...now there is nowhere to hide 

special thanks to can do (that's the aussie guy who likes bell a lot, and she like him too) for helping me conquer yahoo via SMS... now no is safe from me wherever I might be... well providing yahoo is playing!

now how does this MMS thing work?

where there is smoke...

DON'T PANIC

There is life outside, the Net, Yahoo! chat rooms, blogging etc...

firstly I'm glad it just isn't me having hassles with Yahoo and its chat room deities... it see te Big Bellied Ladies groups is mobilising... and with some useful ideas... keep it up girls and stay in touch.

my priviate little frustration was that I allocated a coupe of hours tonight, while i was overnighting in me!bourne, to go on-line and say hi in chat... but where are the regular rooms... what the... I can go to Big Billies but I'm the only one... BUGGAR

So I went and watched a great satiorical show on TV called "grumpy old men"... its a BBC show... suddenly it struck me... I was just like them... they get frustrated by mobile phones... computers....the internet... Hey I though smuggly I know how to use chat rooms.... BUGGAR again.. well i might if I could only get in... could a pimply youth get in right now? (such a thought is a bad sign that I am in fact a grumpy old man)

what we need is a more traditional method to start the communication... maybe a smoke signal... no smoke... its ok the loog in... white misty... maybe logging in not a good idea... red haze... somethings a miss, best to keep away... thick black smoke from the keyboard... leave the room... quickly

warm, wet & wrinkling

i've just been packing up my recent sketches... i've decided that life in the tropics is not good for paper... especially once I have wet it for watercolour washes... it crinkles and curls more and more... simple things like pressing it under somethinh heavy works for the time it is being press... but as soon as it is back in the humid air it withers, curls and crinkles again...


my new scanner gets more detail in the paper crinkle, than the orignal wash

the depressing bit is my new scanner is so good, it manages to capture a lot of detailed shadows of the crinkled paper... so its a trip south for my work and some serious straightening out

in need of sleep

things have been positively in overdrive... no rest for the wicked I guess... but such is life... the good bit is i'm getting an earlier than expected break... and time to sleep!

in the meantime does anyone know why yahoo messanger and chat rooms are playing up so much..? I've totally lost patience...

THEN
Thanks ginger, I just got invited to a friendly re-established room with all the old regs... buggar another call out...!

sketching again

i had a bit of a sketch marathon the other day... there will be more posts, don't worry... i'm proud of these watercolours of lotta, as well as capturing her wonderfull prettiness, they do show her inquisitive warmth... i also loev the colours... the blue & purple paints will be staying out


that lovely lotta smile

lotta in blue top

here's a test for the blokes

if you're a guy and reckon you are pretty capable, they taking this
concentration test for men

.... no cheating!

having some flickr fun

those that notice these things, may have noticed i've been playing with stuff on the right hand side of this blog... firstly because i can , well i've figured out how to... but more importantly to help you the readers... you guys find your way around my wonderings... to let you see some of the stuff i've found useful in the journeys finding my way around the blogSPHERE... buggar i'm catching SINGlish now...

well I have been looking for somewhere to store higher resolution version of my sketches for some time now.... with many false starts... but flickR, which is a photo staring site, looks promising.... but before I fork out real cash to set up anything i thoight I'd try out the free trial offer... but you're involve also...

now for the fun bit

i want to set up my most popluar sketches in there... so what I need you to do is have a look at the FlickR daily zeitgeist box (its about half way down on the right hand side)... when you see a sketch you like click on it... that will take you to a large version, and will register a vote... pretty niffty don't you think... and it doesn't cost you anything.... just your time

I'll be constantly changing the images in my FlikR account, adding new ones and removing the less popular ones... in a few month I hope to have my top 100 most popular sketches in there... well assuming you, the readers, want to play

blessed looking angelic in watercolour and pencil

IANardo

I've been still slowly exploring the web for BBW art... and this guy... known as IAN'ardo, (say it like leo'nardo and you will realise he is a true master of the art form... his pencil sketches are truely magical and a capture the pure beauty of larger girls (in deligthful gowns)


his use of mirrors in some of his compositions...
really blew me away... his site www.ianardo.com is really worth a visit

the blues

terry not wearing her favourite dress up


like eeyore... we all have to face the blues.... sometimes more often, than seems fair at the time... but like the colour blue which can be vivid, rich and deep... lifting and enriching skin tones, nearby by simple contrast... the blues can enrich our life by exposing & highlighting our delicate side... that is if we can learn from the bouts of the blues and don't let ourselves drown

a special big HUG to terry

SINGlish

新加坡技术青年时期的一种新语言

it took me a while to notice but all things WEB, herein singapore, have an unusual written language, ... the words are a mixture of chinese phonetic, hindu, and malay inside english... with no real grammar (which appeals to me, if you haven't already noticed)... and lots of inappropriate CAPital letters..juSt LIke thIS... but it is spreading... from blOGs onto SMS messages... eveyone here saye hELLO NOrt... notICE boards... even bILLboards... often its clEVEr as in the EVE perfume adds... mostLY it is just HArd 2 reAD... the amazing thing is i'm starting to hEAR the YOUnger PeoPLe SPEak in it... at least its better than those back in the UK that overUSE the hand movement apostrophes all the time to "emphaSIZE" the obvious

revisted... some old work

í'm not sure if its me.... my dial up link... or what? BUT the net, yahoo, gmail and blogger are being really slow and unrelaiable... whats going on

No panties in colour chalk (2003)


It did meet up with lisa, some some I have not seen chatting for a long time and her if I could post some of her sketches.... AND she ask about this one... it was done in conte, a type of compressed chalk... it was in my most gaugain period

looking back I have posted a coloured pencil sketch of her last year.

i'm on blogshare... What the ..? you say

i've discovered this blog has listed in blogshare (i think its some kind of fantasy cyber game or challenge) since last june... it might explain all the hits on my counter... buggar it wasn't popularity...

better still my humble blog is worth a whopping B$2,899.13 (that is blogshare dollars, which unfortunately converts to about.... well exactly nothing!)

does it matter that I am not a major shareholder...?
does it matter that I don't have a clue what the game is... ??
has my identity been stollen... ???
do i worry to much about this webstuff... maybe
can I reclaim my blog... ???? oh yes I can... ah time to relax
better still is it time for some more of my homebreww beer..? definitely...



any one interested in playing for me? I now have 1000 shares to sell & little interest in playing... but no more web angst!