Category: Drawing
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Animal Month
Guided by Emily Hirtle, at the Main Line Art Center I started to think about how I wanted to represent different animals with watercolor and gouache. I no longer find watercolor scary and I am motivated by representing the many animals in my life. I want to get better at drawing and painting because I…
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Perception is not always reality
I’ve been trying to improve my drawing skills, and much of drawing is seeing. These days, I think it’s good to remember that perception is not always reality. One’s reality has a lot to do with experience and assumptions. For example, one of my art assignments was copying this master drawing by John Singer Sargent.…
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More Observational Drawing
I would like to gain enough skill to use drawing as a second language for expressing ideas, feelings, and places. After so many years of playing with drawing, I feel as if I am learning skills I can use for this. After 9 classes, I can see that this is going to take a lot…
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The End of Class and Beginning of Practice
I just finished an excellent 7-week class: “Observational Drawing” offered by Zullo Gallery in our town. The instructor (Ron Krouk) did a wonderful job of moving the course online when the state issued the “stay at home” advisory. My goal for this course was to revisit my basic drawing skills. I took “Observational Drawing” to…
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Rainy Day Daffodils
More snow and icy weather is predicted for tomorrow (April 28th!!) so I’ve been bringing in the daffodils for sketching. This started out as a pencil drawing. I started playing with the Photoshop Elements filters and stopped with this one since it looks like today — kind of colorless and rainy.
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