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Category Archives: Learning
Thinking about the Shapes
I attended a one-day class today where we painted using a drawing supplied by the teacher. Although the teacher wanted us to use our time to apply paint, not draw, we did do a simple value sketch before beginning to … Continue reading
A Vase for June Flowers
Today’s sketch is a variant of yesterday’s. It is a sketch of the same bouquet but with some of the leaves removed. This time I wanted to make the vase more transparent and used highly diluted paint for most of … Continue reading
June Flowers
I have wanted to learn to paint without first making guidelines on the paper. The flowers are everywhere this June and I picked a bouquet to practice with, thinking that if the parts did not fit together properly that it … Continue reading
Sheila Speaks to Students at CONALEP Plantel Temixco
My sister Sheila Polk gave a presentation to students at CONALEP Plantel Temixco, a technical high school near Cuernavaca, and I jumped at the chance to go along. Retired or not I still love going to schools and this one … Continue reading
Back to Cuernavaca’s Borda Garden
Last week I sketched one of the reflecting pools in the Borda Garden in Cuernavaca and I had to go back again today for another sketch. The garden is the kind of place that calls you; it is tranquil, harmonious and … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Landscape
Tagged Borda Garden, Cuernavaca, Jarden Borda, Mexico, Urban Sketching
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At the Xochicalco Pyramids
We went to the Archaeological Monument of Xochicalco, which features the ruins of a huge commercial and religious center of the Olmeca-Xicallanca people. There is a museum and extensive excavated ruins of what once was a very large town … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Landscape, Telling a Story
Tagged Deliberate Practice, Gouache, Landscape, Mexican Pyramids, Mexico, Xochicalco
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Homework Time
This Spanish course that the five of us are taking is really great. Not only are we learning Spanish in small groups, but we also have homework. This means my four fellow students are holding relatively still this evening while … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Groups Interacting, People Learning, Telling a Story
Tagged Cuernavaca, Gouache, Mexico, Sisters
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Spring Comes to The Homestead Trail
I took the photo that this picture is based on while biking on the Homestead Trail at Prince Edward Island National Park earlier this month. It was still pretty cold, at least to my California bones, and most of the … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Landscape
Tagged Canada, Gouache, Prince Edward Island, Prince Edward Island National Park
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Dining Room in Vermont
I continued today to use photos as the basis of my sketch. This is from the dining room of friends who live in Vermont. I liked the look and feel of the room and thought the way the sunlight entered the … Continue reading
Father and Child
On my second day of learning to sketch from photos I decided to do a companion piece from yesterday’s sketch, Mother and Child. I had a photo of the father cradling his sleeping baby while stretched out on the couch with … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Deliberate Practice, Uncategorized
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