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May 20

826 Valencia: The Funny Adventure of Grumpy’s Dream

Here are some artwork from the 826 Valencia field trip story book that I illustrated this morning. It was written by second graders and I did the drawings in real time while it was written by the kids with help of typist Bonnie and leader Chad. It’s always fun to participate and I recommend all …

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May 20

Sketch Friday: Super Apes and friends

Here are some drawings that I did today, starting with drawing from a photo and then taking them to a super place. art: ©2010 Brian Kolm

May 17

826 Valencia: Super Monkey

This is an illustrations I did for a field trip at 826 Valencia writing center in San Francisco this month. The illustrations were drawn in real time as the kids wrote the story. I roughed them out with a light blue highlighter on 8.5×11 paper, going over with them with black and pink (which shows …

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May 17

New Art: Zorro

Out of the night, When the full moon is bright, Comes the horseman known as Zorro. This bold renegade Carves a “Z” with his blade, A “Z” that stands for Zorro. Zorro, Zorro, the fox so cunning and free, Zorro, Zorro, who makes the sign of the Z. click for larger images… Brush and Ink …

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May 13

Dr. Sketchys SF March 2010 – Dr. Sketchys SF March 2010 – the Sisters of the Perpetual Indulgence.

I almost forgot about my Dr. Sketchys SF drawings from March 2010. The models were the most interesting ladies delving out their own brand of community service. Their the Sisters of the Perpetual Indulgence, and they are the fabulous drag nuns of San Francisco. These ladies were really fun to draw from their pale powdered …

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May 13

Dr. Sketchys SF May 2010 – Drawings of Girls on Bikes

This past Tuesday I attended this month’s Dr. Sketchy’s SF life drawing session at 111 Minna gallery. This sessions models were the ladies of  publicbikes.com. Click for a bigger image. There was…. “Meli Burgueño, lovely blogger of bikesandthecity.blogspot.com/” and “Constance Cavallas, awesome builder of Pelicans and wheel lacer” and “Amanda Lanker, fearless leader of the …

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May 08

New Art: Flights of fantasy

Here are some recent pencil drawing, with two of them using some Photoshop for some coloring. Click for a bigger image. First a page of clown faces: An alien sitar playing based on a cover of National Geographic from the 1970’s. And an elf warrior women riding on a rodent of some sort. What do …

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May 06

Trip Report: Presidio and the Walt Disney Family Museum

To celebrate my birthday I decided to invite friends to join me with my first visit to the Walt Disney Family Museum (WDFM) in the San Francisco Presidio. The Presidio is a former military base that is now being converted for other things like housing Lucas Digital (ILM) and the Bay School (who one of …

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