two roses

colored pencils on Stonehenge pad 5x7 in.

webdesign

A couple of days ago I learned that Geocities will close its free accounts pages later this year so I started saving files and recreating my webpages I have with them.

Montessori Open House

Magic Pencil Webnotes

Arabesque Virtual Alcazar

It's quite an amount of work since these pages were built in 2001 with Yahoo Geocities Page Builder, a free editor for beginners.

My three websites will be hosted at my domain name www.emalecdesign.com.
I also have pages in Yahoo Spain which were built either in Corel Word Perfect or Microsoft Word, so those are just to transfer to my web address.

In other words no time to draw these days.

Chinese brush painting

Here is An Album of Chinese Brush Painting published by Ning Yeh's Art Sudio in 1986,California which is a true feast for the eye.I can only dream of painting so beautiful and inspiring flowers and horses.Hopefully my trip to China this coming August will also mean purchasing art supplies since certain types of brushes and paper are required for Chinese brush painting.
Until then here are a couple of peonies from my modest attempts in this medium.

a rose

This is a birthday card in colored pencils Caran d'Ache on Bristol Board pink paper 5x7in. About an hour of drawing.

Egypt 2008

These days I am creating web pages with slideshows from last year's trip to Egypt.
Here is Luxor and a nubian village close to Elephantine island, Aswan.

inspiration

This is our neighborhood garden in Southern California in February.

self-portrait

Today I attempted my self-portrait in the mirror.

1 hour, used HB and 8B pencils on sketchbook 9x12in.