Packing the Bus & FunFact's New EP

Kelly Packing the School Bus with Equipment
Watercolour and Ink

Kelly packing his drum kit into the school bus for an out of town gig.

September 19, 2012 FunFact released their new EP. You can get a free download (for a limited time) at FunFactMusic.com

642 Things to Draw #24 - A Trumpet

Pen and Ink

We have a lot of musical instruments in our home because our son is a professional musician and plays just about everything. He mostly plays bass guitar these days, but he has been playing trumpet on some recordings lately. So, when I came across this page to draw a trumpet I just had to go get my son's trumpet.

This was done freehand and some of the proportions are a bit off. However, unless you are super familiar with trumpets, you will not likely notice. I think this looks close enough. I added digital colour below to help better see the different parts of the trumpet.

Pen and Ink with Digital Colour

Wynton Marsalis is one of my favourite musicians. He is an amazingly talented trumpet player. Here is a video of him playing with the Boston Pops Orchestra (with John Williams conducting).

642 Things to Draw #8 - A String Quartet

a string quartet

Pen and Ink

I attempted this challenge several times (in pencil), erasing each one. Then it hit me that I was being too stuffy and serious. So, I decided to do it in the style of The Muppets. This was far more fun to do.

My son had his own string quartet when he was 10 years old.  I was hoping to find photos of that to share with you, but I could not find the box with the photo albums in them. Some day I'll have to find those photo albums and digitize them all.

EDM 16 - Draw a favorite tool

I am stretching the definition to "tool" here, but this is as much as tool as anything. I enjoy listening to audio books while I work. It makes housework go by faster (and be less odious). It is also great to multi-task and listen to an audio book while I draw.

I will have to admit that when I draw and listen to a book, I cannot listen to anything "heavy" or else my hands stop working and I just sit and concentrate on the book. For doing artwork, I find a nice light read is best.

This is my 4GB Coby MP3 player that my son gave me as a gift. I really enjoy using it.  It plays wmv files too.

EDM # 138, #147, #151, #208

EDM # 138 (Draw something soft)

EDM # 147 (Draw something made of wood.)
EDM # 151 (Free choice)
EDM # 208 (Draw something out of place)

This scene is the corner of our living room. This sits beside the loveseat, in front of the fireplace (that we don't use). This is where my husband sometimes practices his guitar.

The something soft (138) is the pillow on the floor at the base of the stool, which is made of wood (147). I just felt like drawing this so it is one of my free choice (151) drawings. And the thing out of place (208) is the box of needles that my husband uses to inject insulin. It is sitting on the corner of the coffee table, right where all the musical items are (you can see the edge of a guitar case behind the coffee table). It is only out of place because it is not music-related, but not out of place because it is Anthony-related (the music is Anthony-related). The other thing that could be considered out of place is the soft pillow on the floor. This is a hand made decorative pillow that has a photo of our son with our old dog, Sherry, on the pillow.

This drawing was done with ballpoint pen and coloured with my woodless coloured pencils.