Confessions of a researchaholic

I spotted this spiky plant ball on the ground while hiking and brought it back as a drawing subject.

Please don't put your feet on seats. We know where your shoes have been: on Caltrain. #CaltrainManners pic.twitter.com/UVIcrDPdwl

— Caltrain (@Caltrain) June 27, 2017

I went to the Cantor arts center an hour earlier than usual, and thus had more time sketching.

A friendly of mine recently posted on FB that he liked an unfinished drawing perhaps more than had he tried to finish it.

When I started drawing about a year and half ago, I strived to finish works with polished quality.
Later, I found the intermediate progress no less interesting, and showed with the final drawings all intermediate strokes without hiding or even erasing them.

Related: one of my most favorite research papers has never officially been published anywhere.

After waking up at 5:30 am today, I tried to catch an earlier train but missed it by a few minutes. The next train took around 40 minutes to arrive; meanwhile I sketched this wall lamp near the platform.

I am on a roll of drawing food residues.

This is a frequent sight of my family dinner, which I managed to draw when we sat together on the same table after a long while.

I felt the need to draw something before going to sleep, and recalled this visual image from a morning news post to spend some twenty minutes.

I saw this sculpture in Anderson collection at Stanford and captivated by its structure.
I started with the contour exercise and still found it hard to coordinate my sight and touch and finished too quickly in about 10 minutes.
I then switched to ordinary sketching for about 30 to 40 minutes.

Because it sat high on a pedestal, it was difficult to photography.