Posted in Figure studio sketches on May 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
In poking around for some new (for me) ways to draw figures I made the startling discovery (made by many before me!) that pastels are water soluble. I had always thought of them as dry and dusty only. And being a water media lover I had shunned them. So I pulled out a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For almost a year now I’ve been giving painting lessons to fourth grader Haley. She comes with her younger sister Cammie, who is already an accomplished poet and picture drawer and mother Mary Jayne, who also loves to draw. And we have so much fun making art together! I asked them to [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on May 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m still sitting at Peet’s coffee here, getting a taste of the busy work crowd. Then, a standing-up sketch of the Bridge.
Finally Bob returns and we head for a trolley up to Fisherman’s Wharf. These are sketched while standing and probably painted later on a bench somewhere.
After walking around Fisherman’s Wharf for a [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on May 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last year I did my own personal Sketchcrawl, which actually started at the Ferry Building in San Francisco where I had lots of waiting time while my husband was getting taken out to lunch. So in honor of the 14th Worldwide Sketchcrawl I just missed, I figured I would share them.
Of course I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Regrettably I never made it to the Sketchcrawl on Saturday - too pooped after dancing Friday night. So I’ve made another resolution to do my own sketchcrawl soon! Meanwhile I did a bit more scribbling, partly to generate ideas for a painting I’m working on. The scribble sketch did go its [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on May 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I wanted to see what would happen if I just started by scribble-drawing with a pencil. You know, to open the creative doorway? I thought there might be a figure, so I started with a head circle. The drawing and painting of this took about 15 minutes, the writing another 20 or [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on May 14, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I noodled around a bit with a sketch I did on an abstract paint-over (acrylic paint slathered on an old failed watercolor painting) . The model is Jeanette and I was sketching her from behind her head. But when I turned the paper she looked like one of those Renaissance angels and I [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on May 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last weekend I spent an afternoon sketching at Merritt College in Oakland. The Model’s Guild sponsors this event, attended by somewhere between 50 and 100 artists. The models are on stages around the large room doing poses of different lengths from 1 minute to all day. It’s a veritable feast for anyone [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Been spending every free moment lately building - a chicken coop for my flock of seven. They’re far bigger than this now - flying every chance they get - feathers replacing fuzz. Way too much energy for their little cage in my studio. These two are the Silver Laced Wyandotts.
The five [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on May 7, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I find it soooo much easier to sketch a figure on not-white paper. So I slathered a couple of old “failed” watercolor paintings with heavy acrylics and took them to Thursday night figure studio with me. Then sketched in pencil and later put on some more acrylic. I want to do more [...]
