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Showing posts with label exercises. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercises. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

NEW PAINTING: THE PLANNING STAGES

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I dislike this drawing so much I almost decided not to post it. However, it serves it purpose so I put vanity aside. I have an idea I am e...
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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...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

BOZZETTO #2 Change of Value

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It was a very exciting day. I went back down to San Jose for the Tuesday Class of Watercolor Beyond the Obvious. So many talented artists ...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

BEGINNING A BOZZETTO SHEET

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Finally, down to some serious painting. In preparation for my advanced watercolor portrait class, I have started my bozzetto sheet. The fi...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

POPCORN BY ANY OTHER NAME.....

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I have finished my popcorn drawing. I worked on a light gray pastel paper with powdered charcoal, vine charcoal and a pressed stick of char...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

GEORGE JAMES WORKSHOP...DAY 1

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I spent a very enjoyable day learning to tame Yupo synthetic paper. I have done very few paintings on this material and welcome the challe...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

THE PLANNING STAGES FOR FEBRUARY PAINTING CHALLENGE

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This is a very frustrating week for me. I am down to the wire for working on my taxes so I spent all afternoon at the computer entering dat...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

POSE MANIAC ADDICTION! A new drawing challenge

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I did a lot of drawing today. I have posted a few of the drawings from my sketchbook with the recycled paper. Let me tell you about the am...
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Thursday, December 6, 2007

DECEMBER PAINTING CHALLENGE #5: Permanent Red, Cobalt blue and Burnt Sienna

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Well, finally a set of colors I liked! The permanent red was to the scarlet side so the purples were muted. Mixing all three colors togeth...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

SKETCH BOOK DRAWINGS - SELF PORTRAIT

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It's been a very long day but I did manage to do some blind contour drawings of chairs at the hair salon while I was waiting for the gra...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING

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After a long day it is good to put your feet up! I spent the day hanging my show at the Gallery Concord. It turns out I have an amazing op...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

TENNIS BALL WITH INK

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After framing 9 paintings today, I finally took a break and did a fast painting. I used Lana watercolor paper. First I sprayed it w...
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Sunday, September 23, 2007

TENNIS BALL, ERASER WITH CHARCOAL

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Since yesterday was a religious holy day, I took the day off from any work. Today I decided to do two pieces to catch up. Working on paste...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

TENNIS BALL & ERASER DRAWING

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I was up early this morning, so, before water aerobics class, I decided to get to work and created this drawing using powdered graphite on a...
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