Click on the images to see a larger version: Sometimes I remember to take pictures of the process. And sometimes I do not: There was fun playing with pastel pencils: And an experiment with a lino cut and print: And I got to hang out for a few weeks with this little chap, by blowing […]
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After a long time away from this little blog, I returned and noticed this old post sitting there patiently in draft. I thought I might as well publish it, so you get something to look at while I cobble together the next one. After almost a year in the job (and a marathon that ate
An old post from last year! Read More »
For #FinishingFriday, I bring you the first piece that I’m reasonably happy with from this year’s classes. Mind you: I already know exactly what I need to do differently next time: I guess I’ll just call it an extensive study before executing the master piece, someday. At least I feel a lot more confident in
Ancient in every sense of the word: dug up from my personal archive from 1992 apparently. Ooh my, when I was a “wee little one” in secondary school. Like last week’s offering, I drew this after a picture from our history or Greek textbook, I’m pretty sure. I never had the guts to sit in
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The other day I was browsing through my older work and tossing a lot of stuff. Some drawings made the cut and are still around, others only got a picture and then got tossed anyway. Most of it just went straight for the recycling. You can’t keep everything. But I have enough to entertain you
Sometimes, I’m just so darn good they can’t believe it… But I think the lighting in our art class studio of an evening is not the greatest, and it kind of helps me: Gentle reader, I acknowledge that I have a decent starting base, and that my powers of shading are coming back and it
