Archive for June, 2006
Saturday, June 17th, 2006
As well as doing portraits, I’ve been doing a series of sketches of Mandu’s features - her tail, her paws, her eyes. More will be posted later. I’m exploring using different media to see which represents the texture the best. The graphite pencil seemed best for the smooth fuzzy tail as well as her scruffy […]
Posted in Journal Pages, Pencil, Dogs, cats, other animals, sketch, Drawing, art workbook | 7 Comments »
Friday, June 16th, 2006
Yes, I am seriously addicted to sketching. These are the sketchbooks I’ve used since March 03, when I returned to art after a 20 year hiatus and essentially started over from sketch, I mean, scratch.
The stack on the left is completed books. The stack on the right is books that are partially full - a […]
Posted in Journal Pages, sketch, Drawing, sketchcrawl, Photograph, art workbook | 15 Comments »
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
I painted this epidendrum orchid in my back yard recently. The frilled, fringed flowers are commonly orange, yellow, red or cream colored and are borne on long spikes like this (I’ve only shown a part of it - the spike is probably 2 feet tall.) This painting was done in my 9 x […]
Posted in Watercolor, Journal Pages, Nature, Gardening, floral, art workbook, Illustration, Painting | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
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My friend Katherine Tyrell is teaching a wet canvas class in drawing and sketching in public, so it thought it would be fun to participate in some of her assignments and challenges. It sort of takes all the surprise out of it when I come up with my own challenges and it’s […]
Posted in Pen and Ink, Moleskine, Dogs, cats, other animals, sketch, Drawing | 13 Comments »
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
No more than 15 minutes from our home, there’s a canyon that opens out into a wide wash. Part of it has been reclaimed as a beautiful golf course, but other parts of it remain as wild as ever, strewn with boulders and sprouted with sagebrush. We were driving near there yesterday, just at sunset […]
Posted in Nature, Art, Painting | 12 Comments »