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Showing posts with label color sketch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color sketch. Show all posts
Saturday, August 8, 2009

LAST OF THE COLOR STUDIES (FOR NOW!)

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Here is the last of the quartet of color studies. This one is ANALOGOUS COLORS (3 or 4 colors next to each other on the color wheel) As a r...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

THREE DOWN, ONE TO GO!

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I redid the painting from the last post on traditional watercolor paper and I like it much better. I am actually using white and black pigm...
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Monday, August 3, 2009

MORE COLOR SURPRISES!

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I received a nice e-mail from Peggy Stermer-Cox and thought I would share it. She posed the following question: "I've been thinkin...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

TINT AND TONE EQUAL IRIDESCENCE

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I have been re-reading Faber Birren's book from cover to cover in order to fully comprehend his ideas. He has a very formal way of expr...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

THE CHALLENGE

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It seems like there are challenges everywhere I turn. First of all, the internet signal to my computer keeps cutting out. Just when I want...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

FABER BIRREN'S COLOR CONCEPT

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In response to Rhonda Carpenter's request for more information on my last post, I will describe what I am trying to accomplis...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

FOCUS ON COLOR

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Today's efforts were focused on color. I made two attempts to do a painting with hue/tint/white. I started with a magenta along with y...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

VALUE STUDIES

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I spend most mornings exercising in the pool, so I wake up and put on my suit before I have a chance to talk myself out of it. This morning...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

VOTE FOR PEGGY STERMER-COX! and MORE MARATHON DRAWINGS

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Peggy Stermer-Cox is one of 5 finalists in the on-line "furry friends" competition. If you click on the blog title it will take ...
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Monday, December 8, 2008

LIFE DRAWING SESSION, SECOND SET

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Here is the second set of marathon drawings. The way the book comes together, there are 4 pages accordian pleated together, so I treated th...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

PRIMARY TRIADS #5 & #6

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These Frenchmen are sure looking strange! I paid particular attention to my value study today and then attempted to mix as many colors in t...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

CREATIVE EFFORTS FOR THE DAY plus CREATIVE WISDOM FROM TWYLA THARP

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Here are my efforts for the day. The every day matters challenge #4 (A Mug) Is fair. I used my brush pen set (the one that isn't light...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

SMALL COLOR STUDY

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Today was another turn at sitting at Gallery Concord. I had borrowed an out of print book by Christopher Schink on color from a friend, so ...
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Saturday, May 24, 2008

WATERCOLOR TRAVEL KIT SET UP

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Here are some photos of my drawing and painting kit that I take with me when I travel. One could have it with them at all times because of ...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

WILLIE NELSON CENTER SEAT STEERAGE CLASS FROM DALLAS TO SAN FRAN

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Here is the sketchbook page from my return flight from the Cedar Hills workshop in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area last week. I was crammed into ...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

THE VALUE OF DRAWING

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I did this fast little drawing (5 x 7) in my sketch book and decided to paint it. I spent a few more minutes creating little value plans a...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

DISCOVERIES ON THE WEB plus PLANE ART RETURN TRIP

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Something was not working well with the Slide.com web site. My slide show was not loading properly. After 5 tries, I decided to forget it ...
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Monday, April 28, 2008

PLANE ART GOING TO NEW YORK

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It was a long flight, so I entertained myself by painting in my sketch book. I took a small 6 x 9 Aquabee Super Deluxe sketch book with me ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

LATEST DRAWING MARATHON RESULTS

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Today was another drawing marathon. I had to miss the morning session but made it to the afternoon one. Too bad! The models for the morni...
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Sunday, April 13, 2008

LESSON 2: CHANGING THE LIGHT SOURCE

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Saturday's class was very small. Illness kept many at home, but those that showed up did a great job with a complicated concept. The i...