august art log

Themes for the month: Sci-fi (from the art server) and deserts (from LMA). A good duo. I’m skipping the medium of the month, since graphite pencil doesn’t interest me.

• Aug 1: Watercolor of a world tree extending far into space, with planets and UFOs in the background. For the bad g1 topic (chartreuse/chartreuse/fog).
• Aug 2: Ink-and-wash of desert planet outposts. Several small planets with large cacti buildings, plus UFOs and a rocket.
• Aug 3: Marker sketch of a pumpkin in blue; pen sketch of mushrooms & pumpkins.
• Aug 4: Meeting sketch in pen. A multistory bottle house with trees and various foliage growing nearby.
• Aug 5: Watercolor of a peach tree branch. Based on a Sarah Cray video.
• Aug 6: Watercolor of a peach tree branch in impressionist style. Blue sky, multicolored clouds, heavy use of BPW and layered brushstrokes for the clouds and peaches.
• Aug 6-7: Pen and marker sketches of robots. Mildly corru.observer inspired.
• Aug 8: Pen + crayon landscape with candy-colored shoreline/water/distant mountains and various planets in the sky.
• Aug 9: Pen doodle of a dragon (inspired by jank AI art worm posted in chat); marker doodle of daisies.
• Aug 10: Marker + crayon sketches of a snapper (in pink) and slimes with various foliage growing from their heads (in green).
• Aug 11: Meeting sketch in pen. A UFO using its beam to siphon up fish from a creek.
• Aug 12: Marker sketch of a running cirrus + pen sketch of a UFO, color-inverted in Photoshop.
• Aug 13: Pen drawing of a desert research facility. Tinyhouses in prickly pear cacti.
• Aug 14-15: Watercolor of prickly pear cacti and a cactuar under a cactus sun. The prickly pear is based on a Sarah Cray video.
• Aug 16: Pen + crayon doodle of orange fish.
• Aug 16-17: Watercolor of fish (salmon-coral with purple fins) on a green-yellow background. Longform version of yesterday's doodle.
• Aug 18: Loose watercolor floral. Large purple-pink-orange blossoms, yellow queen anne’s lace (wild parsnip apparently).
• Aug 19: Watercolor of a striped goldfish with its tail coiling across the page multiple times and trees planted atop it. Sunset palette (blue > purple > pink > orange).
• Aug 19-20: Companion piece on the facing page: watercolor of a striped tree with fish flying around. Green-yellow-orange background, green leaves & fish. The other half of the color wheel.
• Aug 21: Pen + crayon doodle of a spiral. Rose body, green wings, yellow underbelly. Twin moons in a blue sky.
• Aug 21-22: Watercolor. Abstract spacescape in ultramarine, purple, and rose with salt & BPW.
• Aug 22: Watercolor desertscape. Saguaro and prickly pear cacti under a blue sky.
• Aug 23-24: Watercolor of a UFO terrarium. Loose foliage with orange blossoms.
• Aug 25: Watercolor of miscellaneous plant pots. Testing my new phthalo turquoise (straight and mixed with rose, lemon yellow, and sap green).
• Aug 26: Pen sketch during work seminar. A full-page composition with assorted plant pot houses, foliage, cacti, clouds, balloon slimes, and various abstract forms.
• Aug 27: Crayon drawing of flower stalks. Attempting to emulate a loose watercolor style.
• Aug 28: Crayon sketch of an overly long snake (boa primary) with wildflowers on its back.
• Aug 29: Watercolor prickly pear cactus, featuring phthalo turquoise and salt. Based on a Sarah Cray video.
• Aug 29-30: Pen sketches of rocks, rock rocket ships, rock houses, and houses. Some crayon coloring + marker under-coloring. Inspired by Zack Feldman’s art.
• Aug 30: Watercolor + pen doodle of peach houses under the Aug 5 peach tree branch.
• Aug 31: Sketches of 31 shoes for the 100 shoe challenge. Mostly pen; a bit of marker/crayon.

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Pictured: Aug 2-4 misc sketches (some logged, some not); Aug 6 impressionist peaches; Aug 19-20 fish & tree spread