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Oil Painting

I had heard a lot if hype about oils being awesome, so even without a lot of painting experience I was excited to take this class. The faculty member teaching it had several decades experience and that tipped my motivation to take it. We started with grisaille painting. You paint a grey tonal painting, then paint colors over it. As you can see, my flower put one looks pretty flat, it was my first…

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I found this painting today, and I love it. Artist: Vivian Flasch

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Feet study.

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Beginning drawing figures and faces

Gesture drawings are quite tricky. The idea is to capture the energy of a pose without many details. Usually you have a minute or less to do so. I’ve been at it for over a week, and it’s very challenging. Here’s some I went back over with pen for ease of viewing and to round them off nicely. I’m doing more detailed figures as well, and plan to do a long one, but here’s some five minute sketches:…

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Beginning drawing figures and faces

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Art as a Connection

Art as a Connection

In drawing class last week we watched a film about Keith Haring, an artist who started as a graffiti artist in New York City.  One of the most interesting part of the film discussed how his art brought thought-provoking visual material to the everyday citizen going about their daily routine. Fine art at the time was considered to be made and consumed by elite in art galleries and other…

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Measured Drawings, Still Life

Corners! Super exciting! Ok, maybe not, but part of the learning experience. This week we’ve been doing still life, practicing measuring angles and lengths with our arms and drawing tools. Some still life I did for an assignment. I did that, decided it wasn’t gestural enough, so I did a second with my little Wonder Woman figure, the cute, the lamp, a pot and a couple of rocks, and I didn’t get a…

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Gesture Drawings

We did gesture drawings today. My practice later: Sorry this last one is sideways. I think with these last two I got a bit too detailed on the bodies. I need to get more gestural again. I thought doing line contours and gestures were for just doing different styles, but it’s been surprisingly freeing. When I’m trying to draw quickly and capture the jest of something without fretting the details,…

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Life Reboot Reflections

This fall I’ve started an education and a part time job. It’s a lot of changes in a short time. I’ve gone from being a stay at home mom with a lot of craft hobbies to a graphic arts student and part time substitute at a preschool. Mentally the process has been exhilarating. I love meeting people and going places. The learning itself is endless layers of interesting and challenging. Drawing:…

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Contour Line Drawing and More Charcoal

I thought abstract art would be the thing challenging me most in my drawing class, but I just hasn’t discovered all the weird ways to make at yet. On Monday, we did contour line drawings, which to me seem like one of the ugliest ways to render body parts, but here we are. We started with hands, doing dominant, opposite, and blind. Then my shoe. Inspiring, no? Yeah, me neither. Then self…

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Drawing Class: Getting Messy

Wow, so little blogging. Things have been busy because first there was an never-ending summer with the kids, they went back to school, my husband had a massive allergy attack that took a week to recover from, I started work, I started school, and we’re slowly getting in a new groove. I’m now an art major, kicking off my college reboot with a drawing class. Week two brings the messiness. We…

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Zebra Watercolour

I spent many more hours on this than I have on previous projects, also better planning and practice before painting. Using the blue tape to protect the zebras made me a bit nervous, but it worked out fine! Preliminary sketching in progress: I wound up pressing hard on my sketch in order to make dark lines that would remain faint shadows after I erased them. I am going to get a lightbox or…

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One of my local wool shops just posted this to Facebook. I have no idea who they are or what they are doing. They look cool though, right?

Theory - They were stood outside naked, and someone came along and yarn bombed them.

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Nahosenay Negussie

Mixed media. Ethiopia.

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Incredible. :)