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Grand Canyon
This is the blog I should have posted on Monday, August 10. We are camping at the Grand Canyon and do not have internet access, so I could not upload last night. The Grand Canyon is a great place for using a variety of … Continue reading
The Slide # 2
My goal this week is to plan my composition using thumbnail sketches. Wednesday we were traveling and although I sketched at lunchtime, I did not do thumbnails. Later after we set up our camp and ate dinner, I returned to the ‘Slide’ … Continue reading
Library Napper
Today I continued to work on telling a story about a person while also placing the person into a place that shows depth and proportional sense. I returned again to the library, read books about composition and sketched several versions … Continue reading
Library Stacks
After spending some time in the library reading and sketching, I looked down an aisle and realized that I was sitting in a prime location for creating a classic one point perspective drawing. It was interesting to finally be in … Continue reading
Perspective
I really enjoy the fun of being in the flow of sketching and just drawing without doing the work of planning and following the plan. However, sketching for the fun of it is not the plan for this blog. Today … Continue reading
The Reader
Putting perspective to work as a tool for telling a story will continue to be my focus today. It is a rainy morning and we gathered in my brother’s cabin, glad to be in a warm space together. I was … Continue reading
Figure, Forest and Perspective
I have been camping out of internet range and was unable to post. This is the blog I wrote for July 9, 2015 Remembering that my primary goal is to tell a story through image, my plan for today is to … Continue reading
Deliberate Sketching 