Our last night above the Arctic Circle we met some folks from Mexico who were also hoping to see the Northern Lights. We were lucky! Ipad artwork in Sketch Club.
Shipmates in Tromsø
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Both Sides Now: Joni Mitchell, 80, at the 2024 Grammys
Both Sides Now
A brief look at a YouTube upload of her touching performance. My iPad sketch was done in SketchClub on my iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil.
Extreme Huskies’n Stuff
Our guide was wonderful. She taught us both how to dog sled, how to mush, how to ride along, and how to love dogs even more! At the end of our excursion, she introduced us to the entire dog team…one by one and by name! Here’s to you, Maestra! Extreme Huskies near Ivalo, Finland.
Extreme Huskies
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Above the Arctic Circle
It’s cold; and it stays dark later and gets dark earlier. I took the reference photo for this freehand iPad painting at 9:26 this morning, January 18, 2023; sunset was 1:53 PM.
Jorma & John live in Athens, OH
A few weeks ago Annyth and I got to see Jorma Kaukonen and John Harlbut at the River Of Time Boutique in Uptown Athens. That was on December 16, 2023. Now that we’re back in Athens we get to see first hand cool things like this. I took a photo between songs which I used as a photo reference for this freehand iPad digital painting. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, and the live music warmed our souls. Annyth bought a really cool apron there too.
This isn’t Jorma’s first appearance on this illustroblog. Check out these two other posts, one of which tells the story of my weekend at the Fur Peace Ranch back in the early 2000s when I learned at camp directly from Jorma himself that, when it comes to finger picking, the secret is in the thumb: yep, click here. See a couple of must-see links below the following image:
Check these out too:
1. Click here
2. Click here too, this is cool!.
The Dairy Barn
Yea, the Dairy Barn! Read all about it!
I first laid eyes on this landmark in 1979, and it never ceases to amaze and inspire me. I’m glad we’re back to visit the grounds and take part in the art and music events. There are also gorgeous, very nearby hiking trails guaranteed to please any time of the year. Ora Anderson Trail. The Ridges.
Freehand iPad painting in Sketch Club. Reference photo:
Jorma’n Tommy
A freehand quick sketch based on a reference screenshot from a YouTube video (see below) featuring old friends Jorma Kaukonen and Tommy Emmanuel playing a Roy Book Binder song in 2023. See also this 2014 post of Jorma in which I refer to my own weekend at the Fur Peace Ranch back in the early 2000s.
Jorma and Tmooy
Poetic License
Poetic license plate.
Truck in my mind
Truck in Athens, OH
Glen reaching a high note on Falling Slowly
This freehand iPad painting done in Sketch Club with an Apple Pencil, uses a screenshot of Irish musician Glen Hansard and, although not depicted, Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová, from the folk rock duo, the Swell Season, as they perform Falling Slowly on YouTube.
Glen Hansard (click on image to enlarge)
Roughly Nov. 2022 – Nov. 2023 (CA to OH)
Here’s a video summary of many (not all) of the digital images and smaller videos that I’ve composed on my iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil from November 2022 to part way through November 2023. The time period happens to correspond to our corporate move from California to Ohio. As usual some of the images are cartoonish, some are a little more serious; there are a few dogs, a few airbnbs, some political figures, and some psychopaths, I’m doing an inventory so that I can pick out one, maybe two or three for a “call for entry.” Feel free to leave a comment or ask a question in the space provided below, and thanks for visiting.
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