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Don’t Be Limited
I couldn’t leave a week during which I discussed the use of space on a page, without including this portrait from the end of last year. I’m the queen of running off the page. Not planning sufficiently. This means in my haste I often miss the thing that engaged me most—the base of […]
A Horned Hat…
A pretty goofy painting. A bit of mixed media: brush pen, watercolor, gouache (background), color pencil. And of course piecemeal style—a piecemeal portrait is one which starts life on one sheet and then grows (you can see the edges of the original sheet). While there is a lot in this that makes me smile each […]
Fun Sketching Hair Part 3
Update October 19, 2021: I just posted the sketching session video which includes this sketch. Check out this post for this and another warm up sketch, followed by a watercolor sketch portrait. Of course it was the hair and beard that made me want to sketch this portrait! But starting with the small rectangle of […]
Virtual Fair Sketch-In Wrap Up 2020
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The Piecemeal Portrait Tutorial That Wasn’t
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Piecemeal Portrait of a Dog
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Piecemeal Style Portrait of Two Dogs
Today’s sketch is one of my favorites of my year so far. I made it using a Sktchy muse photo for inspiration and in the photos of my working process you’ll be able to see how I pull a photo up on my iPad and position the iPad to work, whether at a drawing table […]
Running Out of Paper Space
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Step By Step: Pen, watercolor, and Collage
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Follow Me on Instagram—During the Hiatus, the Interim, and Beyond
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