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Continue reading →: A Few Practice Drawings
I took a picture of a floral pitcher that I had sitting on my mantle. It was the shape of the pitcher more than the floral design on it that spoke to me and said “draw me”. Well, the floral design was keeping me from drawing the darker tones of…
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Continue reading →: Peppers Anyone?
My plan is to draw/sketch from the many pictures I have taken in the Caribbean. I have too many to count in my stack of “to draw in the future”. Many of them are landscape pictures from the beautiful beaches I have visited and some are from my snorkeling adventures.…
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Continue reading →: A Flower
Personally, I think flowers are a difficult subject to draw. I have a few hundred flower pictures in my archive. When I get ready to draw, I always pull out a flower picture first. It could be the composition that catches my eye or the the colors. Then I put…
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Continue reading →: This Looks Familiar: Re-Drawings of Drawings
You might notice or come across some of my drawings that I posted on my blog will start to look familiar. That’s because if I liked a particular still life that I have used in the past, I will re-draw it using another form of art medium. So a graphite…
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Continue reading →: Personal Drawings: A Tropical Fish
I’m in a lull where I’m not taking any art classes for a few weeks. I am making a point to practice during the evenings and on weekends. Time permitting. I have a lot of photos that I have taken and I have spent some time going through them. The…
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Continue reading →: Day 4: Charcoal Drawing – A Live Model
Our surprise for tonight was drawing a live model. Anna had invited her daughter to sit for us. We were all anxious and for me this was a first time I was drawing a person. We were at our easels and to get us started and warmed up, Anna had…
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Continue reading →: Day 3: Charcoal Drawing – Fabric & Folds
Anna had promised us we would be drawing fabric. She was not kidding. She started the class off with warm-up drawing exercises. We had a 2 minutes to draw each of the four (4) different fabric drapes on her dress form. Anna draped fabric on the dress form and waited…

























