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Continue reading →: Finding My Zen…Maybe
If you read my last post (A Race Against Time), you may remember that there were a few goals I wanted to accomplish for my next urban sketching outing. Listing them here helps keep me accountable, so I must be honest about how well I followed my own advice this week.…
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Continue reading →: A Race Against Time
There’s a quiet, stately neighborhood in town with some of the most charming houses from the previous century. Each one has its own unique character, and no two are built from the same mold—a quality that is increasingly being lost in today’s make-it-cheap, build-it-fast housing market. (But we won’t get…
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Continue reading →: Mid-Semester Reflection
Whew! We have officially made it to the halfway point in Life Drawing class. We’ve spent hours drawing models in the studio. We’ve written numerous blog posts documenting our process and progress. We’ve sketched live animals, of all creeping and crawling kinds. We’ve participated in a live drawing gallery exhibition,…
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Continue reading →: Wildlife Sketching Week Two: Structure and Development
This week in Life Drawing looked a little bit different. Instead of completing a portrait or a set of gestures drawn from life, we were instructed to take a few of our gesture drawings and develop them further in the studio. Any drawing medium acceptable! I’ve enjoyed learning more about…
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Continue reading →: Charcoal Portraits Week 2: Tools, Technique, & Process
Wait, you might be saying. I thought we were done with charcoal portraits?? Why does this post say Week 2, when we’ve already walked through the process of weeks three, four, and five? I missed the first two weeks of the semester due to a personal matter, so when I…
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Continue reading →: Wildlife Sketching Week 1: Gesture and Movement
And once more, I’m back with another installment of Life Drawing adventures! Our charcoal portraits unit has come to a close, and while it is nice to have a change of pace, I have to say I feel that it ended too soon. Maybe I’ll keep practicing those on my…
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Continue reading →: Charcoal Portraits Week 5: Character and Persona
It’s pretty risky drawing a portrait of someone you know well. The stakes seem higher, because if you do badly, or if you mistakenly emphasize some aspect of their features they’re not particularly fond of, the portrait may cause a breach between you that cannot be easily mended. Let’s hope…
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Continue reading →: Charcoal Portraits Week 4: Quality of the Light
You sit down to draw a portrait. Your model is sitting in front of you, and you’ve chosen a nice angle about forty-five degrees to her left. You’ve got paper, charcoal, erasers, blending stumps, a cup of tea, etc., and the next two-three hours at your disposal. All your ducks…
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Continue reading →: Charcoal Portraits Week 3: Accuracy of the Drawing
Ironically, the last blog post I made (What’s in a Face?) was all about the powerful meaning I find in drawing someone’s portrait. I say ironically, because the next several blog posts I make will be ALL about portraits! I’m in a Life Drawing/Plein Air Painting class in graduate school, and…
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Continue reading →: What’s in a Face?
Recently, I finished the most marvelous book my roommate gave me called Theo of Golden by Allen Levi. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend. It’s a beautiful story about a generous old man who moves to a small town in Georgia, called Golden, and decides to gift a…
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