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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 […]
Project Friday—Let’s Collage
In this post I’ll walk you through a recent collage I made. This isn’t something that I preplanned. It’s simply something that I worked on with the materials at hand, moving from one thought to the next. I’ve turned the step-by-step into a Project Friday because I hope you’ll get up from the computer, make […]
Step By Step: Pen, watercolor, and Collage
I make sketches I call piecemeal portraits because I end up running out of paper and have to add paper to them. Typically I do this on loose sheets. But recently I’ve found myself doing it sometimes in my journal too. Today’s portrait is one that I made in my regular journal. The journal is […]
Simple Approaches for Backgrounds—A Five-Part Series: Part 3 Patterns
This is Part Three of a five-part series on simple approaches to backgrounds in the visual journal and paintings. See Part One here. Today I wanted to look at pattern—it’s something that you can use to quickly fill up the background space around a subject. I’ve written about some of my favorite approaches numerous times […]
In Context: A Piecemeal Portrait of a Dog
Sometimes when I don’t like the paper in a journal I’m working in (here a Zeta Smooth, heavyweight journal from Stillman & Birn) I will sketch on Post-it Notes™ Sometimes I save those bits of paper and make a piecemeal portrait. (See the category list for additional piecemeal portraits.) See my four part review on […]
In Context—Just Draw
In the “In-Context Series” I promised I wouldn’t write a whole lot of text. Just let the page spread stand for itself, but sometimes I feel the need to say a little more, and include a detail image. This type of spread is what you often see in my journals: a prepainted page with a […]
In Context—Grumpy Roz
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“Over the Sofa” Show Opens on Thursday, July 14 at the Edina Art Center
Left: One of my sofa-themed 5 x 7 inch gouache paintings—with collage. Gouache on Stonehenge (gray). Click on the image to view an enlargement and see the lovely gold flecks in the collaged pillow shape. Thursday, July 14 at the Edina Art Center “Over the Sofa” opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. […]
Grabbing What’s at Hand When Sketching and Pushing a Drawing To See Where it Might Lead You
Left: Pentel brush pen and purple Zig marker on an 8.5 x 11 inch (approx.) sheet of Wave drawing paper. I have been clearing out some files and thought I'd put up three sketches made in the past few months, from June to the present, showing the fun I've been having with the various Pentel […]