Sketching while video-ing

I was sucked into the YouTube zone tonight, watching video after video...one topic leading to the next. Before long, I was watching a video called the Bird Flu Hoax.(produced last year, not about the current flu pandemic) No idea how I got there, but I was there and I watched. Sort of. Mostly what I found was a video of a person remaining fairly still as he talked. To me that meant a perfect model! This is Dr. Ott.



I tried adding a little color in Corel Painter X. It's okay, but what I really wanted to do was add watercolor to it. I was just too lazy to get everything out. Maybe tomorrow I'll give that a shot.

It's on printer paper again. I don't know why I spend so much on sketchbooks, I always end up back on the cheap stuff!

HEB parking lot

I'm really really embarrassed about this one. Well, the painting part...

Today we stopped by HEB, and while my husband went in for a few items, I stayed in the car to sketch. He is always very fast so it was a race against time. I only had time to sketch in the main part of the building, which I could only see bits of, the outlines of some trees, and two of the cars, one of which left before I finished. The sketch I liked. But, it was on regular printer paper and I tried to add watercolor. What a disaster! Oh well, I am glad to have made the experiment without worrying too much about the preciousness of a sketch! ...which is actually a huge step in itself, for me.

Another attempt to sketch in public

These two men were sitting outside a Starbucks enjoying their conversation...until they noticed a strange woman sitting in her car, staring at them. First the guy in the goatee noticed me. Then he said something to the other guy, who then turned to look at me. I pretended to be doing something else of course. Unfortunately they felt too uncomfortable to stick around.
So, it's a sketch in public, still from the protection of my car, and it's not my husband. How's that? I do wish I had been closer though; I would have liked more details. But mostly I am curious what they could possibly have thought about me!

And here is my husband, who I am sure you must recognize by now. He has been a fantastic sport lately, letting me sketch him. He didn't used to let me because he hates to be still. It drives him crazy in fact. But, today it wasn't necessary to ask him to be still. I just caught him while deep in thought. He was almost perfectly still. You'll see a faint line where him arm moved down, which I chose to not erase.