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Family Members Often Make the Best Models
Above: Dark purple Prismacolor Pencil sketch in an 7.5 inch square handbound book containing Nideggen paper. You can clearly see the wavy laid texture in the background and clothing. I love this paper. This is CR, Dick's 94-year-old father, sitting quietly, posing for me. I had just given him a hair cut. It wasn't […]
Proportions and Features: Eyeballing vs. Systems
Left: Selfie made while looking in the bathroom mirror. A 7 x 7 inch, approx. journal (turned on its side so I could have a vertical) I made with Niddegen. I used a fiber-tipped brush pen containing Platinum Carbon Black ink cartridges. I'm wearing my favorite T-shirt—a 25 year old Lake Street Shirt design, given […]
Dove Chocolate Days and What I Think of Cheery Messages on Labels; Oh, and Another View of Richard
Left: Bienfang Watercolor brush (magenta; also red on the collar), Pentel Pocket Brush Pen, Montana Acrylic Markers in various colors. (There's that lilac I mixed and love so much.) Dick watching TV while I sketched him on a page in a 9 x 12 inch Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media wirebound journal. "It's a '10-pieces-of-Dove-Day," I […]
A Little Bit of Life Drawing
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Why Draw?: Because It Leads to Something…Drawing Is Subversive
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Project Friday: Squinting to See Values
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Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media Paper
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Project Friday: Bienfang Watercolor Brush Pens
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Thoughts on Life Drawing
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A Second Opinion Is Helpful
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