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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Father and Son Night Feeding
We are visiting relatives in Chicago and I had the lucky opportunity to sketch the newest member of my husband’s family while his father fed him. After several sketches that did not come close to capturing the bond between the … Continue reading
Sharing a Laugh with Old Friends
We stopped in Saint Louis to visit with friends from our college days and it was wonderful to connect again. It seems like not seeing people for 30 years ought to have created a huge void but this was not … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Facial Expression, Groups Interacting, Story Creation
Tagged Body Language, Gouache, Saint Louis
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Along Nebraska State Highway 2
The landscape along the Nebraska highways has a storybook quality. Attempting to capture the feeling of its open spaces with its somewhat rolling hills and textured fields is a great way to spend a day driving across this large state. … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Landscape, Telling a Story
Tagged Gouache, Landscape, Nebraska
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Action Sketching along I- 80 in Nevada, Utah and Wyoming
Although learning to accurately sketch is a long standing goal, composing pictures from what I see is an important goal too. Action sketching requires a kind of imaginative planning that I find difficult. Drawing real people who move about in … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Landscape, Telling a Story
Tagged Action Sketching, Highway, Landscape, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming
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As the Conference Ends
Well, the conference is over. This is a last sketch on an iPad of worn out participants from yesterday evening.
Presenting to the Group, version II
This is based on a black and white sketch I posted two days ago. I used two apps on my iPad, Procreate and Snapseed, to crop it and add color and texture. I notice that it adds more emotional value … Continue reading
Posted in Facial Expression, People Learning, Telling a Story
Tagged Procreate, Snapseed
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Day 3 at the Conference
Today is the third day of the conference and basic pen drawings are all the sketching I can fit in. While I miss using color, I do enjoy just quickly jotting down what I see. These three sketches today … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Facial Expression, Groups Interacting, Learning, Story Creation, Telling a Story
Tagged Body Language, Learning
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Three More Sketches from the Conference
Today I used the app Procreate on my iPad to make sketches of the presenters and participants at my conference.
Posted in Body Language, Groups Interacting, People Learning, Telling a Story
Tagged Procreate, Sketches of People
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Looking to the Side
When I was a principal my days were packed and often the only sketching I could do were quick little drawings. I am reminded of this today as I am volunteering at a conference through the end of this … Continue reading
Along a Petaluma Path
This sketch is more of a record of a few hours than a sketch of a specific time. I started this sketch along a path outside of Petaluma California early this morning when the skies were gray and there … Continue reading
Rainstorm on I-5
There was rain on I-5 this afternoon around Los Banos. It was heavy and the cars ahead of us kicked up quite a bit of it making it seem as though the rain was more intense than it actually … Continue reading
On Our Way
We got a very late start, finally leaving San Diego well after dark. I sketched a bit as we drove north through LA and think I captured the feeling of night driving on a freeway. I used my phone and … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Facial Expression, Landscape, Telling a Story
Tagged California, Drawing while driving, Landscape
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My Fresh Palette
We set off tomorrow for a five-week trip with the above gouache palette, a small set of transparent watercolors and drawing supplies. After much indecision and an incredible number of paint swatches, I finally committed to 12 gouache colors for my … Continue reading
Chart for a Fresh Palette
I am much more likely to do an activity that I am set up for and sketching away from home is no exception. If it takes too long to get ready I sometimes end up not sketching away at all. … Continue reading
A Sideways Look
My high school art teacher made a big impression on me. I still remember many of her sayings from 50 years ago or so. One I think of nearly every day is that there is no such thing as a … Continue reading
The White Dress
Our purpose today in our figure painting class was to show the dimensionality of white by using pastel shades of complementary colors. Although we were to do this with just one pair of complementary colors, I somehow used both red and green as … Continue reading
Street Ball in the Spring
This started off as a sketch of the flowers in my yard, similar to the sketch I did last Wednesday of the daisies at Cabrillo National Monument. I wanted to capture the mounds of flowers against the curve of the … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Facial Expression, Groups Interacting, Landscape, Telling a Story
Tagged Gouache, Home, San Diego
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The Presenter
One of the perks of living within walking distance of a university is the ease of sitting in on presentations by thinkers from near and far. Not only is this an opportunity to hear ideas, it is good for sketching … Continue reading
Mounds of Daisies
I sketched today at Cabrillo National Monument where the mounds of daisies are breathtaking. It was perfect for working on one of my ongoing deliberate sketch questions, “How can I show the rhythm of nature with big shapes and repeating … Continue reading
Fishing at Shelter Island
Our landscape class met today at Shelter Island on the San Diego Harbor. Our goal was to apply multiple graduated washes and use the modulations in the color to show the sea and sky. The locale had large flat expanses … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Deliberate Practice, Landscape, Telling a Story
Tagged California, Gouache, Landscape
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Back to Back
Our goal today in the figure painting class was to achieve harmony by painting with a dominant color and, if necessary, small amounts of the colors adjacent to it on the color wheel. This was an awesome assignment because it made me think … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Deliberate Practice, Facial Expression, Learning
Tagged Color, Learning, People
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More Flowers in a Vase
I picked up today where I left off yesterday, painting flowers in a vase. The vase is in the same place on my desk but this time I painted with gouache on black paper, not with transparent watercolor on white paper … Continue reading
Flowers in a Vase
I kept working on flowers today, which was really about working on color, line, harmony and contrast. It was a lot to think about and I took several photos of the sketch as I worked on it. As you can see, it … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Learning
Tagged Learning, Procreate, Still Life, Watercolor
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