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Almost Speechless
It has been an intense and difficult two months in the US since the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police. Last week I saw something I never thought I’d see. (As a child I was out of the country in 1968.) Masked Federal agents putting people, who were exercising their right to protest, […]
A Short Video about My Favorite Brush Pens
I love using the Pentel brush pens with the squeezy bodies, and of course the Pentel Pocket Brush pen. You can read more about them and see them in some different packaging in this linked blog post. Today I’m posting short video I made for my Patreon—RozInterim subscribers. (The video appears at the base of […]
Things to Do in the Current Pandemic: Learn from Pluto
Learn from Pluto? Yep, the dog, not the planet or the cartoon dog. Pluto Living is a YouTube channel that has PSAs (Pluto Service Announcements) from Pluto the dog. This dog is an older miniature Schnauzer (if I’m remembering correctly). Her name is Pluto and she is concerned about the issues stressing two-leggeds in the […]
Things To Do in the Current Pandemic: Testing Non-Art Papers for Mixed Media Visual Journaling
Last week I wrote the following blog post to my Patreon-RozInterim subscribers. When I started my subscription blog on Patreon I had no intentions to share any of the posts from that blog with a larger audience. However the current pandemic has me bending the rules on this particular post. This post deals with testing […]
Coincidence or not? Seeing Double…
Lately I’ve found that because I always see double I have been spending a lot of time thinking about “the single line” and what is the minimal amount that you can do with line. Dogs are a useful subject to practice these theories on. Paper matters so much in this exploration. In the second image […]
Protected: Go Ahead—Overwork A Sketch Sometimes
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Protected: What Is a Study?
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Piecemeal Portrait of a Dog
If you’ve been reading the blog for even a short while you’ll know that I enjoy making what I call “piecemeal style.” Please use the category list or the blog’s search engine to find many more examples of this. Here’s one post to get you started. If you’ve been an online student of mine in […]
Acrylic Painting—Some Books and Materials Recommendations
In December 2018 I wrote a post on how to deal with an artistic plateau. I included some book recommendations in the hopes that readers would use some of the books as workbooks for self-study, to work themselves off the plateau they found themselves on. I added pen and ink as well as drawing books […]
Protected: What’s Roz Up To?
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