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Category Archives: Learning
Between Two Trees
Today I continued to try out new surfaces to paint on. This surface is black watercolor grounds applied with a roller. It made for a rough but uniform texture and absorbed the color down into its surface. I painted at Torrey Pines … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Landscape
Tagged Gouache, Torrey Pines State Reserve, Watercolor grounds
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High Tide at Torrey Pines
There was such a high tide at Torrey Pines this morning, the lagoon was full of water and very exciting to sketch. In my enthusiasm, I painted over the shoreline and road but like the sketch anyway. Yesterday I prepared a … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Landscape
Tagged Gouache, Torrey Pines State Reserve, Watercolor grounds
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Taco Redo
For the last 10 days or so I have been experimenting with the surfaces that I paint on. My goal is to find something that allows me to rework sections of a painting. So far I have tried painting on paper … Continue reading
A Perplexing Result
In theory, collaboration sounds like a sweet and collegial process, but in practice, it can be quite heated. I have been listening to these two work out ideas together for more than 30 years and am still amazed at their … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Facial Expression, Groups Interacting, Learning
Tagged Emoting, Gouache, Learning
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Lily Pond Corner
Our plein air class went back to the Lily Pond at Balboa Park. I worked on reflections again. This time I left a large amount of black paper unpainted to suggest deep water and to contrast with the lily pads … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Landscape
Tagged Balboa Park, Gouache, Lily Pond, Reflections, San Diego
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Flowers and Figure
We worked on quickly capturing gesture with a minimum of lines during the first portion of the figure drawing class this morning. Then we had several 20 minute periods of time to capture a figure using gesture and to place … Continue reading
Editing Sketches with Apps
This was an interesting afternoon. I went back and edited some of my sketches from the week with Procreate, Snapseed and Photos, all apps on my iPad. In the sketch above I adjusted the tables in front of the two … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice
Tagged Deliberate Practice, Gouache, Photos, Procreate, Snapseed
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Hillside Near Rancho Bernardo
It is hot and dry in San Diego County just now and there was not a lot of shade this morning where I was sketching near the Bernardo Winery northeast of San Diego. I love the brown and yellow in … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice, Landscape
Tagged Bernardo Winery, California, Gouache, San Diego
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Back to Alcazar Garden
Our landscape class painted again at Alcazar Garden in Balboa Park. Before leaving the house this morning, I looked at my sketch, ‘Among the Hedges‘, that I made on September 28 at Alcazar Garden. I thought it was much too … Continue reading
Posted in Cityscape, Deliberate Practice
Tagged Alcazar Garden, Balboa Park, Gouache, San Diego
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Negative Space
In the figure drawing class today we worked on making the figure pop by developing the negative space around the figure. For example, the bedding the model is sitting on got much more emphasis than the model herself. This is … Continue reading
