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In Context: Two Conversations with Richard
As with other “In Context” posts you’ll need to click on the image to read the two conversations. The first conversation, on the verso page is small. I’ll just explain a little more for context—in the 1980s I worked mostly in color pencil in photorealism. I started a sketch of Dick one day and, as […]
In Context: Palette Choices for a Triad
You can click on the image to read the text on the page. You’ll learn more about the pigments I used and why; more about my choice of subject matter; and about a brush I wish to replace—but that looks unlikely as it is no longer listed on Cheap Joe’s website and they haven’t answered […]
In Context: Pears v. Apples
As you’ll learn from reading this “In Context” page, Pears v. Apples isn’t some weird digital war… I have to smile and say if you work in your journal long enough you end up making a vessel to contain everything ready when you need it. I had pre-painted several backgrounds intending to paint portraits opaquely […]
In Context—My Relationship with Gravity
Conversations with Dick get jotted down. He seems to have a good idea of what bothers me. Sometimes I save the notes. I’m using my time stuck at home to work from some photos I took at Como Zoo—to practice shading on penguin feathers. If you can’t get out, you can still work on a […]
Pushing a Sketch
It’s very rare that I don’t finish a sketch. If something goes awry during the sketching I typically keep pushing just so I can see what’s possible. I learn a lot at moments like that. On this date I was using a granulating blue on a pen sketch of a little black dog. I usually […]
OK, I Guess Sometimes I Do Doodle…
A couple months ago I seemed to be living through my own Brendan Gleeson film festival. On this day I was sketching without glasses (if everything is double vision isn’t blurred vision an evening out or smoothing out of the lines?) without stopping the movie. That meant I had to hold things in my mind, […]
More Fun With Hair (and a Beard)
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How Do I Keep a Journal or a Sketchbook?
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In Context: More Travel Prep
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The Potentiality of the Page
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