Screws In My Coffee

I am working on another color pencil drawing. I will include the working images in here.

This is my starting image. I am taking pictures to show progress as I define colors and figure out what I am drawing. I take a picture about every hour.

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So as I was drawing this I wondered what was on the right image off the page. It is interesting that I often wonder what is over there off the canvas or illustration that was not drawn. Well I decide to tape another board next to the one that I was already working on and see for myself.

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I currently have about 8 hours of work into this project

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I finished another drawing titled Laura Laundramat. This is a drawing that I got from an idea in my SELP notes. I started drawing this picture during my trip to Las Vegas, worked on it during my visit to Portland Oregon and finished it on 8/20 in Austin Texas.

Which Hotel?

I got into Sin City yesterday afternoon and immediately left my brain on the aircraft that brought me here from Austin. I am so use to arriving and departing from small one terminal airports like Austin, Portland and Pomona that I had forgotten what it was like to be in a really crowded large airport (if you call Las Vegas large). This shows how Podunk I have become, but I am happy with it.

Anyway as I board a monorail to get to my baggage terminal I am in the midst of folks who are truly excited to be in Las Vegas to party and gamble. I am here to take a training class on software developed by Microsoft called SharePoint. I have been to Las Vegas before a few times in a car and have done lay overs in the airport on my way between Austin and LA or Portland so this is the first time that I have flown into the town and gotten out of the airport.

While I walked to the baggage claim my sensuous were assaulted by the ultimate marketing gauntlet. I can barley make it through the Fry’s gauntlet that you have to parade through every time you make your way to the cashier, but the Las Vegas airport gauntlet was intense. Now I know why the multi-screen was invented, so that you could show video spam really big. For a moment I wanted to attend shows and events that I truly had no interest in a moment before but after seeing the video trailers loop over and over I was primed and ready to go. Forget my bags I can always buy new clothes with all the money that I’m going to win it the casinos!
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When I get on my custom Serotta Rapid Tour bike and get out on a ride I feel great. I forget all my problems and excuses of why I do not have time to ride and I enjoy my ride. This is when I repeat my slogan in my head “Shut Up and Ride”.

Today I went to the Wild Flower Velloway in south Austin and rode 4 laps. Each lap is about 3 miles. I rode the first lap slow and relaxed, then I sprinted the next two laps and finished the last 1.5 miles slow. The velloway is a great place to train for speed and still be off the road away from cars. I like to spint until I am really tired and then ride to simulate a long ride.

I got a case of Dr. Pepper in plastic bottles at Costco in Austin, Texas and it is flat.