Catalina Wine Mixer

Before leaving for this vacation, my good friend Lupe decided to throw together a "Catalina Wine Mixer" and sent out a questionnaire for everyone to fill out. Once the majority of our friends showed up the info would be posted as a fun ice breaker to introduce everybody to one another.  In order to jazz it up I was asked to do some drawings to represent some of the answers people gave. I gave the drawings away after and used a watercolour moleskin and paint set I have never used before.

Here is my first drawing for the choice between day or night. I said daytime was my favourite, but in the Central American climate night was far cooler so I slept during a lot of the day.

My room mate Ray wanted to participate by lending a helping hand and finished off the colouring.

The next three drawings are for peoples favourite sex positions. I drew one of the local male dogs doggie mounting a girl who is NOT Lupe.

After a quick application of watercolour and washes it was taped down to the table for practitioners to enjoy.

Mine is Cowgirl, I'm not going to expound the benefits here but I did make an inside joke of it between me and my good friend Dom, I managed to keep this drawing a secret until the day of the mixer where she was surprised, plus I let her keep the piece.

Here is is with a splash of paint. Notice how white the guy laying down with the ears is, I'm not that tan. lol.

Here is Dom tallying the results of the survey and making the lists for display at the mixer. She is much more tan that the drawing and didn't actually have a cowboy hat.

The final choice in the survey was Missionary. Its a transitional move really, or for the lazy, so Lupe and I agreed it is boring, so to jazz it up a bit I made it a legs up drawing. A pope giving it to a nun on a cloud in heaven.

Here it is done with a splash of paint.
These really had people arguing about what position is best and why. Sex really starts passionate and heated debates at the Catalina Wine mixer!

What's your favourite position?

The early bird gets the worm

I guess I'd say I'm fairly driven. I’m good with my time, but just as good as anyone with a day timer.

But a lot of dumbfounded people ask me how I can get so much stuff done in my life.

So what is it that makes me tick?  Here's a little peek into what I’m really like on any given day. 

I tell you, even my close friends don’t really know what it is that I do to be the way I am, and get as much done as I do. I think it comes down to routine and organization.

"I'm a VIRGO, I can't help it, by nature I want to be in control of my life.  I need to be organized."

I keep a moleskine day timer by by bed and then put it into my back pocket. I love these things. I buy one every single year. I have a catalogue of these things an on any given day of any year I can go back and track it. Believe me, it is so helpful!

It is also a good place to write down cool things to check out, books to read, peoples names and numbers. I think it is a good thing to have some idea of where you’re going, like having a map before you head out on a journey. After all, if you don’t know where you are going, how will you know the way?

I think it is very important to keep up a daily practice or routine. Mine I call  the "Daily Success Ritual for the Jedi Mind". Laugh if you must, but it works!

One thing to note about routines is that after about 30 days of creating the new habit it becomes second nature. You notice, instead, that when you don't do them you feel like something is missing. Like drawing every day or reading before bed. You cant go on to the next thing until you've done it.

Daily Success Ritual for the Jedi Mind

1. I wake up and clear my mind. Take a little time to myself before springing out of bed.

2. I drink a tall glass of water to replenish my fluids.

3. I write a daily journal, I have for years. I picked this little helpful tidbit from Julia Cameron's "Artist Way". If you haven't done that twelve week program and want to be an artist what are you waiting for?

4. I stretch and exercise every single morning. It keeps me healthy and fit, and is the daily maintenance to keep my body in working order so this tin man isn't too squeaky. (I admit, this part is the hardest for me, it takes a ton of discipline. I can tell you……. it is something I don’t look forward to doing most days. But I decide to do it anyhow.)

5. I drink a healthy shake. Mostly Blueberries (yummy) Hemp protein, Alberta Greens and Almond Milk.

6. I do my daily hygiene. I learned this from living with many girlfriends. Guy's usually don't figure this one out but in order to feel confident and good all day a little work may be necessary. I floss and brush, tongue scrape, neti~pot, shave, pluck, put in contacts, slap on cream, aftershave etc. Whatever I see that needs to be done.

 90 min. or so later...... I'm ready for anything!

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“Wait a minute”, you say, “I don’t have enough time in the morning to do that”.

Here is where personal choice and willpower come into play. You will have to get up earlier! That’s right. Wake up even earlier. Make the choice not to go out and get drunk, or to be lazy and zonk out in front of the TV until the we hours. Get to bed early. Wake up early. Simple. Try it.

JUST DO IT!

This is part of my "long-term living strategy".

I have a theory that doing a little of something but doing it everyday has more growth potential over the long term. More on that in another post;)

Bodyworlds sketches

My town is lucky right now 'cause right now you can go to the Telus World of Science and see the Bodyworlds exhibit. That is where they take cadavers and through the special process of plastination seemingly freeze dead humans in any shape and anatomical level of dissection........ and some with rather artistic takes on it. It is creepy, disturbing and somewhat educational.  Here are some sketches from the foray, I think I'll go again this week and spend a little more time drawing.
These sketches  were done with a .5 mechanical HB pencil  in a small moleskine notebook.

Magic Pop an the technicolor circles

This sketch was one in my small moleskine with the wonderful medium of graphite. 

Graphite tends to smudge as the small particles sit on top of the tooth of the paper.

The smoother the paper, the less it sticks. Fixative is necessary if you want to keep the integrity of your drawing, or in my case I just scanned it.

This drawing was done with a dollar store pen set that had all the colors of the rainbow. I called it 'blockhead' for ironic reasons, maybeI don't actually know why. It's how my brain works I guess.
It just goes to show you that a sketch can be anything, especially because this one is just fun and brings a smile to my face when I see it.