Figure Drawings: Kika, Brazilian Model

Here are some figures drawn from a session at Dalvero this year.

This is Kika, a Brazilian model wearing a seashell necklace and a crown of flowers.

I am looking up at Kika, as I am drawing.  I made this tiny 5 foot tall woman look like a giantess.   She is wearing a costume with a lot of native patterns.

All three of these ladies are Kika, dressed as a bride.

In these two poses, Kika looks like she is dancing, maybe a samba. 

Here is a mini-skirt-clad Kika wearing a bright-red head-dress.

  

Kika in royal blue sequined dress and peacock feathers.

Kika in an outfit that reminds me of Vivianne Westwood.

Mayflower Cut-Away Drawings

Here is a cut-away pencil drawing of the Mayflower so you can see the two floors in the same drawing.  At the top, is the captain's cabin; at bottom, the passenger deck.  The bottom is far more crowded than the command center at the top. 

Here is another "cut-away" drawing of the Mayflower, so you see the outside and part of the inside.  The green area on the far left is where the captain's cabin would be.   There is a bunk bed for the officers just outside the captain's cabin. Underneath, the red outlines of boxes would be areas delineated for passengers.  Each rectangular box would be for a family.

Mayflower Narratives

Here are some illustrations and excerpts from The Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick.

"... We all want to know how it was in the beginning.... " (Preface)

"... For 65 days, the Mayflower had blundered her way through storms, and headwinds, her bottom a shaggy pelt of seaweed and barnacles, her leaky deck spewing salt water onto her passengers' devoted heads...." (Chapter 1)

"...There was a thin slice of moon overhead, gradually fading to nothingness, as the sun rose behind them in the East.  Up ahead to the West was what Jones believed to be the forearm of Cape Cod...." (Chapter 2)

"... Massassoit, the most powerful Native leader... strong and powerful...presided over a people who had been devastated by disease...." (Chapter 3)

"...Dorothy Bradford fell..." (Chapter 4) 

Before the ship landed, Dorothy either fell or jump.  She had left behind her 4 year old son in Leiden, and she missed him terribly.  Her husband, felt that it was safer for him in Europe than in America.  I feel the boy must have felt confused and abandoned, and I don't doubt that Dorothy Bradford felt the same way. 

"... Puritans believed that the entire Sabbath must be devoted to worship...."  (Chapter 4)

"... After more than 2 months at sea, there was what they termed a 'great need' for washing, and the women found a fresh water pond near Provincetown...." (Chapter 4)

"...the banks of the harbor had been dotted with wigwams, each with a curling plume of wood smoke rising from the hole in its roof... fields of corn, beans, squash...canoes...blue fish, bass, lobsters, buried clams...." (Chapter 5)

"...1616 to 1619, diseases brought this centuries-old community to an end... gruesome evidence of the epidemic was scattered all around...." (Chapter 5)

"... a tall straight man... his hair was black, short in front and long in back... he was 'stark naked' with just a fringe strap of leather around his waist.  A pilgrim was moved to throw his coat over the Indian's bare shoulders.... (Chapter 6)

"... Susanna White lost her husband...Edward lost his wife... a month and a half later,... Edward and Susanna became the first couple in Plymouth to marry... children needed to be cared for; households needed to be maintained...." (Chapter 7)

"... For more than a week, the ship lingered inexplicably at the tip of Cape Cod...." (Chapter 8)

"...Plymouth by Winter of 1623 was a place of exceptional discipline... it was in their best interests to work together...." (Chapter 9)

 "... at Wessagussett, an entirely different community had come into being... deadly combination of malnutrition and despair.... Indians possessed stores of corn that they were saving for the Spring...."  (Chapter 9) 

"... 1630... an armada of 17 ships arrived... 1625... Bradford received the stunning news that the Congregation's minister, John Robinson, had died in Leiden.  Profound sense of sadness and inadequacy...."(Chapter 10) 

"...The Pilgrim diplomat is a smooth tongued cunning fellow....." (Chapter 11) 

"...The Pilgrims...sailed across a vast and dangerous ocean to a wilderness where against impossible odds, they had a made a home...." (Chapter 12) 

"... There were hundreds of warriors, their faces painted, their hair "trimmed up in comb fashion..."  (mohawk?) "...they danced to the beat of drums...."  (Chapter 13)

"...Upon the return of husband...Alice Church...almost instantly became pregnant...as a son grew in the womb of A.C., the war...spread with terrifying speed...." (Chapter 14)

"... There was another Native group to consider. The mohawks, a powerful subset of the Iroquois...."  (Chapter 15)

TO BE CONTINUED...

Sketches in Italy (EPCOT)

Panorama in Italy (EPCOT) with a gondola floating under the bridge.

Outdoor cafe as seen from a balcony.

An Italian lady, selling souvenirs, had the most interesting hand gestures.  This is the gesture she made while saying "You're Welcome!"

Sketches in Japan (EPCOT)

In the garden, was a cherry blossom and some lanterns.  

Two people were sitting in front of the gift shop, making origami.  

There were some trees in front of a Japanese pagoda. 

Some ladies were giggling and gossiping in between serving customers iced tea. 

Sketches in Morocco (EPCOT)

Morocco, a North African country bordering the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, is distinguished by its Berber, Arabian and European cultural influences. Marrakesh’s walled medina, a mazelike medieval quarter, offers entertainment in its Djemaa el-Fna square and souks (marketplaces) selling traditional ceramics, jewelry and metal lanterns. 

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This was an archway into a square.

Here is a corner of that square, leading to other passageways.

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 Inside a ceramic shop, in a backroom, was a book on pedestal. 

Behind the potted plant, visible in the arched window of a shop, is a lady with her back turned.

Sketches in France (EPCOT)

A bench outside of France (EPCOT). 

A man sitting on that bench outside of France (EPCOT) looking at a French woman, hat off.

The French woman, whom the above man was looking at, admiringly.  She is a hostess for the restaurant seen behind the bench in the first drawing.