642 Things to Draw #52 - A Water Tower

A Water Tower
Pen and Ink

Quite frankly, I have not seen an actual water tower in years. I am sure they exist, I just have not been anywhere, recently, where there are any.

A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a water supply system for the distribution of potable water. ~ Wikipedia

Water towers vary in shape and size. There is a good article about them in Wikipedia.

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642 Things to Draw #51 - A Paper Airplane

A Paper Airplane
Pen and Ink

I used to enjoy making paper airplanes, although, to be honest, mine never flew well. This one was made by my sweet Anthony and it flew across the room right to me. I had asked him to make one and he did.

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642 Things to Draw #50 - Draw a Synthesizer

My brother, Joe, playing keyboards
Coloured pencil and ink

I found that synthesizers looked boring so I drew this image of my brother playing keyboards. This is from an image he put up on Facebook of himself. He was playing a gig.

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642 Things to Draw #49 - A Crystal Ball

Crystal Ball
Ink and Watercolour

This is a pretty sad crystal ball. When I look into it all I see is myself looking back, holding a paintbrush. On the other hand, we could say that it is an accurate crystal ball in that it is claiming that I am an artist.

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642 Things to Draw #47 - Jelly Beans

Jelly Beans
Watercolour Pen

My family and I really enjoy jelly beans. We don't have them often, so they are a treat. I like the red and the black ones of the regular kind. There are too many too name in the Jelly-Belly brand. My son loves the green jelly beans, which are my least favourite.

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642 Things to Draw #46 - A Bag of Hammers

A Bag of Hammers
Pen and Ink

Bag of hammers, according to Urban Dictionary means: "An insult referring to either the stupidity/low intelligence of another, or the uselessness of an idea, remark, or person."

You can say something like, "He sure is pretty, but he is as smart as a bag of hammers!"

I drew a literal bag of hammers.

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642 Things to Draw #45 - A Jar Full of Pennies

Penny Jar
Pen and Ink

Well, it is not exactly full of pennies. It is only a third full. This is my penny jar. It is in the shape of a Teddy-Bear and was originally full of Kraft peanut butter. These bear-shaped jars came out in 1987 as a limited time promotion. The lid had a coin slot built in to it so you could use these as coin-banks.  Ours is a large (1.5 Kg) glass male bear with a red lid.

Kraft bear-shaped jar banks
circa 1987

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642 Things to Draw #44 - A Juice Box

Rubbermaid Juice Box
Pen and Ink

I was going to draw one of those cardboard juice boxes that you can purchase in the grocery store, however, it made more sense to me to draw the Rubbermaid Juice Box that we used when Alexander was younger and took lunches to school. These are reusable and litterless. You can even purchase replacement inner straws when needed. I used to fill this with apple juice for Alexander (his favourite).

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642 Things to Draw #43 - Pom-poms

Pom-poms
Ink and Digital Colour

Pom-poms. My little cartoon girl is showing off her cheerleader moves with pom-poms. This is something I have no experience with. I was never a cheerleader, nor did I want to be one.  I have never enjoyed sports enough to want to be at games. And, I am extremely uncoordinated, as it is. When I was going to school cheerleading was not a sport, in itself.

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642 Things to Draw #42 - Synchronized Swimmers

Synchronized Swimmers
Pen and Ink

I have to admit, I do not understand the appeal of synchronized swimming. It looks silly to me. I realize that it does take a lot of skill and talent to do. I understand it is not an easy thing to do. When I watch this sport I all I can see are the weird movements and the bizarre facial expressions. I am certain synchronized swimming is one of those sports where it is more fun to do than to watch, like golf.

Truth is, I am not fond of any sports so I am not the best person to comment on something like this.

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642 Things to Draw #41 - A Gold Medal

A Gold Medal (from the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008)
Watercolour with Ink

The Summer Olympics just occurred in England this year (2012) but I decided to do the gold medal from the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008. I thought it was prettier.

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642 Things to Draw #40 - A Tulip

A Tulip
Pen and Ink with Watercolour

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642 Things to Draw # 39 - A Submarine

A Submarine Sandwich
Pen and Ink

They probably meant for me to draw a submarine boat but I am more familiar with the submarine sandwich so that is what I drew. I sometimes make our own subs for lunch, but more often than not, if we are going to have subs for lunch I go to Mr. Submarine or Quiznos. Both are walking distance from our building.

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642 Things to Draw #38 - An Old Key

an old key
Pen and Ink

This is a pretend old key. It is actually the key to one of my jewelry boxes.

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642 Things to Draw #37 - A Knot

a loose knot
Pen and Ink

I have no idea what kind of knot* this is. I am not well versed in knots. My shoe-laces come undone faster than you can say "would you please".  I supposed I could have attempted to illustrate knot, the unit of speed, but that did not occur to me (and I wouldn't have the foggiest how to go about drawing that!)

Here is a page that offers step-by-step videos of useful knot tying, not to be mistaken with tying the knot.

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*My friend, photographer/artist: Ingelbert Lievaart II, says it is a bowline knot and he finds it very useful.

642 Things to Draw #36 - The Milky Way

A Milky Way Candy Bar
Pen and Ink

Instead of drawing THE Milky Way, I drew A Milky Way. YUM! The chocolate bar was far more fun to draw (and eat) than a bunch of dots on a page representing stars. But, for those who wanted to see THE Milky Way, here is an image of it from Wikipedia:

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642 Things to Draw #35 - Head in the Clouds

Head in the Clouds
Pen and Ink with Digital Colour

This cartoon was so boring without colour so I added some digitally. The colour helps to illustrate the "head in the clouds" theme better.

When someone is said to have their head in the clouds it means that they are out of touch with the real world. They may be flighty, frivolous, scatterbrained, or just daydreamers. They are considered unrealistic or naive as a result of having their  head in the clouds. These people are often guided by whim and fancy.

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642 Things to Draw #34 - A Balloon

A Balloon
Pen and Ink with Digital colour

I added the digital colour because my drawing was so boring without it. It is not all that mush more exciting with it. I regret not drawing a hot-air balloon. That would have been more interesting. I can see a park from my window where they launch hot-air balloons.

This balloon is purely from my imagination, but I have seen many of these throughout my life. Our son has a latex allergy. We can no longer have latex balloons in our home.

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642 Things to Draw #33 - A Spigot

Pen and Ink

I actually had to look up what a spigot was because although I thought I knew what it meant I was not 100% certain my definition was correct. It was.

The drawing is of the spigot, or faucet, in our laundry room. The tap is really not crooked on the actual spigot, but I messed up. We'll call it "artistic license". The spigot over the laundry sink in our laundry room is just a plain old utilitarian spigot. It is not fancy but it does the job. It is copper in colour with the tap being stainless steel.

To see what Wikipedia has to say, go here.

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642 Things to Draw #32 - A Peg Leg

Pen and Ink

When I think of a peg leg I think of the old movie pirates. I'm sure that there are still people with peg legs, even in these days of artificial "life-like" prosthesis. However, this is a topic I know very little about. Wikipedia did not have much to add to my knowledge base.

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