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Tag Archives: Gesture
Guimarães and Children
We are in a new-to-us city, Guimarães, Portugal. It is an UNESCO World Heritage Site because the city has maintained its medieval character while also developing into a modern city. The city is quite a change for me from my … Continue reading
Posted in Cityscape, Telling a Story, Uncategorized
Tagged Children, Families Belong Together, Gesture, Guimarães, Ink Sketches, People, Portugal. Sketches
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Fixing the Leak
Our watering system sprang a big leak, which is not good when water conservation is as important as it is right now in California. It had to be fixed and I got to sketch my favorite home repairman in the … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Story Creation, Telling a Story
Tagged Exaggeration, Gesture, Line, San Diego, Urban Sketching
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Tel Aviv Corner
It was fun to take the bus down to Tel Aviv for the day with friends. We visited three small museums each honoring an Israeli founder, Ben Gurion, the first prime minister, Chaim Bialik, the poet, and Reuven Rubin, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Gesture, In- the- moment, Israel, Line, Urban Sketching
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Street Drummer
At nearly five in the afternoon Yafo Street in central Jerusalem was full of hurrying people. A street musician began to play the hang drum and people stopped to listen. I was lucky to be already sitting across the street … Continue reading
Posted in Groups Interacting, Telling a Story
Tagged Exaggeration, Gesture, In- the- moment, Line
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Are You Interested?
I do not know what academic topic these two were discussing today in the Hebrew University Library’s cafe, but I thought that there was a more personal and unspoken topic being considered as well. I tried to capture the positive … Continue reading
Jaffa Street
Downtown Jerusalem has a long street shared by pedestrians, stores, sidewalk cafes, street musician, and light rail, but not cars. I was puzzled at first by what looked like a lack of barriers between the light rail and people but … Continue reading
Posted in Telling a Story
Tagged Exaggeration, Gesture, In- the- moment, Israel, Line
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Early Thursday Morning
The Jerusalem morning light pours through the blinds and adds warmth, good cheer, and a bright glare to our breakfast table. Drawing a blinding glare that obscures shape will take more practice but for now I used diffuse yellows and … Continue reading
Posted in Telling a Story
Tagged Gesture, In- the- moment, Israel, Line, Procreate, Splashes of Paint
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Damascus Gate Bus Plaza
I am beginning to feel more comfortable sketching in pubic here in Israel and did a first pass of this sketch while waiting for the tram near Damascus Gate, one of the entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem. One … Continue reading
Posted in Telling a Story
Tagged Exaggeration, Gesture, Israel, Procreate, Splashes of Paint
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Parking structure at sunset
A parking lot is an unusual subject for me. I was up at the college planning to get some end-of-semester student scenes to complement the ones I did at the start last August. I did get a few but my attention went … Continue reading
Rio San Diego and Fenton
A red stoplight at some intersections makes me very happy because I get to pause to appreciate the view. Rio San Diego and Fenton is one of these and I had to get out of my car and sketch the canopy of palm trees and … Continue reading
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Tagged Exaggeration, Gesture, In- the- moment, Line, Splashes of Paint, White space
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Clean-up team
Every great meal should end with a clean kitchen. This team has it covered, one focused on licking the dishes clean, the other on rinsing and stacking the dishwasher. I put down lines using a quick gesture style because it conveys the … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Story Creation, Telling a Story, Uncategorized
Tagged Exaggeration, Gesture, In- the- moment, Line, White space
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Developing an image for Thanksgiving was a different type of challenge than my usual interpreting and sketching of an observable scene. I had to think which symbols of Thanksgiving aligned with my own thoughts. Then there was choosing a style … Continue reading
This can’t be the optimal control of the quantum oscillator, can it?
This is the fourth day I listened on the sideline as two scientists pursued an elusive relationship among their equations. Many of my sketches are about the visual beauty of people learning and thinking together. This sketch is about the labor … Continue reading
Rachael’s sketching group
Today I sketched with Rachael’s group in Spanish Village, part of Balboa Park in San Diego. Many of the artists sat in a gazebo drawing scenes from the surrounding area. I wanted to capture this and through it tell a story of kindred spirits spending … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Groups Interacting, Story Creation
Tagged Exaggeration, Gesture, Nonverbal Communication
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The over-the-hill gang hits the gym
Six of us exercise together each week and since I sat this session out I got a chance to capture the efforts of my compatriots. One of my main goals is to convey a story and I like this image because the range of exercise- running, … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Groups Interacting, Story Creation, Telling a Story
Tagged Exaggeration, Gesture
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Learning
The San Diego Watercolor Society met today at Old Town, a park that commemorates local history with buildings, museums and educational programs. Just as I got settled for painting, a class and a museum docent gathered for a lesson at … Continue reading
Costco food court for reals
My brother-in-law, who is an expert on all things Costco, pointed out that while my October 16 post has the word Costco in the title, that the image did not come close to capturing the spirit of its food court. … Continue reading
Gesture Landscapes
Today we drove from Telluride across the Navajo Nation to the Grand Canyon. As we drove I sketched, completing ten or so of these. The landscape did not hold still. I used a water soluble pencil together with watercolor to capture … Continue reading
Last Telluride Town Talk
The last town talk of the summer took place in the historic New Sheridan Hotel. I love going to these because the speaker is fair game for a sketcher. This time the speaker stood on the stage, well above the … Continue reading
A last streak of light
I did not have much success with my plan for sketching exaggerated body language today. However, after a rainy afternoon the sun lit a streak on the hillside and I tried my hand at capturing it. While not satisfied, I do … Continue reading
Telluride Town Talk
Telluride has a tradition of public talks which I love attending because of the provocative topics and the many captive people I can draw. Most speakers have to work hard to explain the topic in terms that the general public can understand and … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Facial Expression, Telling a Story, Uncategorized
Tagged Gesture
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Fourth of July Greetings
My plan for today was to catch quick actions that would tell a story that anyone could understand. I planned to do it by using gesture drawings of individuals or pairs of people, without background detail. This quick sketch is about … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Deliberate Practice, Uncategorized
Tagged Emoting, Gesture, Sketch, Summary of Learning
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