Just a couple of quick sketches today. I drew the top sketch at Peets Coffee tonight, a few minutes before they were closing. There were still three people sitting at tables and each had one foot up on extra chairs. If Peets wasn’t about to close and I wasn’t so sleepy, it would have been fun to keep drawing. It’s not much of a sketch but at least I got my pound of decaf Holiday Blend for tomorrow morning.
The bottom picture is just a guy I drew on my very late (7 PM) BART ride home from work. Coming home so late, I was really glad I’d spent yesterday evening making a huge pot of vege soup and roasting a chicken instead of in the studio. It was so nice to come home and know the soup and chicken just needed a quick trip through the microwave and dinner would be ready. Making pictures is great, but you can’t eat them, so every now and then other things just have to come first. Like maybe tomorrow I’ll get to the dust bunnies and fur balls floating around the house! (or not?)
Jana Bouc, Artist 
12 replies on “Small sleepy sketches”
Good to hear you are human! š I had a similar feeling of relief a couple of days ago when I could just reheat yesterdays lasagna (always tastes better next day too!) The everyday stuff keeps getting in the way, there’s no avoiding it unless one is a real slob. The sketches are super, even though you were tired, you made time for art, well done!
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These are FABULOUS, Jana! Oh, I can so relate to that sleepy image! And the fellow you sketched looks tired too! I love the spontaneous feel of the cafe sketch …! I know how you feel — I seem to be running around headless these days with the holiday crunch on top of too much regular stuff to do!
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I always love to come here and find we’ve done something similar, as now with your people in the coffee shop and my woman at the Corcoran cafe. I feel as if we’re on such parallel paths. You so amaze me and impress me with your energy and dedication, Jana—and your skill!
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Sign of the times – one on the computer and one on the mobile, it appears – very nicely caught. No, no pumpkins in Scotland in the 60’s – too cold and I think we ate local produce – a lot we grew ourselves (paintings yet to do). I hope you have a satisfying weekend and get done at least half of what you hope š
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Your late night/evening drawings are so much better than mine. I am jealous LOL You just inspired me to do more sketches… Thanks š
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I like sketches like this. That guy on the laptop; every time I go into a coffee shop these days there are loads of people on laptops, esp in Davis. what happens if someone spills a big load of coffee all over the machine? I’d be pretty unhappy. I’d be just too anxious about it. I’m worried enough that people will spill on my book, or sketchbook. Coffe shops are dangerous places. I know, I used to work in one. You never get desensitized to the amount of coffee you see spilt. I don’t even drink the stuff.
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Thanks!
Felicity, Oh yes, I’m definitely human and though it annoys me to have to do all the everyday stuff, you just have to eat and sleep!
Peet, The woman was yacking on the cellphone the whole time so I don’t know how the guy was concentrating on his laptop. I know what you mean about spilling coffee. I had to switch to decaf but before I did, spilled many a cup of real coffee from being so out of it before I had my caffeine fix in the morning.
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You inspire me! I like the “character” that pops off this guys’s face. Have you had the experience that if you stare at someone long enough while drawing them, you start to fall a little in love with them?
Anyway, thanks immeasurably for all your tips on the phone while you were cooking that soup and chicken. I wasn’t able to download my own image for the presentation I selected, but I’ll keep trying.
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Love the Cafe sketch – so much detail.
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Love the sketches Jana. How do you manage to draw on the dart – I find I can’t do anything on any moving vehicle … Hope your dust bunnies haven’t started multiplying – I’m sitting here trying to do some art school homework, and keep getting distracted by the huge mess on the living room floor as we’ve had to pull out boxes from storage under the stairs because of a mouse problem! EEk!
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interesting sketches. it must be your great hobby to sit down and do such sketches
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Hi Mithi, It is tricky drawing on the subway, you either have to draw really quickly or just go for a jiggly line and not worry about it (or both). The dust bunnies are getting fat and happy–still ignoring them (except for the ones under my bed because I had to store a box of mat boards there. But soon….maybe today, I’ll vacuum. Art always seems to come before cleaning unless I’m scared of my art project and then cleaning is a nice way to procrastinate and avoid the blank page!
Jana
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