Category Archives: Facial Expression

What Does It Mean?

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

  The body language of thinking often involves sitting up straight, staring directly at a person, computer, or text, and a hand gesture that shows surprise or attention. I believe I caught all three of these this morning in this … Continue reading →

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What Does It All Mean?

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

  I didn’t get a chance to sketch until the end of the day but fortunately I had an excellent model, sleepy but fixated on making sense of a lecture on his computer. One of my goals is telling a … Continue reading →

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A Coffee Shop Kind of Day

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

The winter storm is easing, but today was still a great day to sit indoors, sip coffee and sketch. Since people are my favorite subjects to draw I headed off to one of the many university coffee shops. I drew … Continue reading →

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Skype Sketch

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

The 10-hour time difference between Jerusalem and California makes for sleepy Skyping for our son, who stayed up very late to talk to us. When the talk shifted to technical work,  I got out my sketch pad, a pencil and watercolors, … Continue reading →

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Reconnecting with a friend

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

  In the late 70’s we stayed in Israel for 17 months. Now back in Israel for a few months we are happily reconnecting with old friends and taking lots of photos, two of which I used for this sketch- … Continue reading →

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Almost done

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

  Our son came down from the Bay Area to help us and we have been working away on readying our house for renters while we are away for the next six months. We were all a little bleary eyed … Continue reading →

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Pause for a bite

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Sarah Sullivan

Looking again at my sketches from yesterday I find I like this 5- minute piece better than the 50-minute sketch I posted yesterday. This quick sketch has a loose and fluid feeling and makes me curious about what the couple was experiencing together. … Continue reading →

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