Ed

Yesterday I started a 10 week class at a local art school: Portrait Drawing – Beginners. It was incredibly intimidating to walk in with my sketchbook and pencils and find several people who were obviously not beginners setting up enormous pastel collections, hugging the model, and chatting away with the instructor like old friends. [...]

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Cracked Mirror Exercise

Scary, isn’t she? Even more so in person, because at 16 x 20″ she’s larger than life!
I was digging through some old files, and came across this exercise from the first oil painting class I took. We sketched the face from a magazine ad, then our instructor added the “cracked mirror” lines to [...]

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Fall Classes Again…

 

About 3 weeks ago, the fall schedule for our local art centre came out, and I was pondering what class(es) I wanted to take this fall.  Now the schedule for another local art school has been published, and I can start moving toward making a decision.
My “day job” has somewhat irregular and quite inflexible hours, [...]

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Fall Classes

The ducks are progressing – they’ve had the first glaze applied, and the second will go on tonight.  But I’m going to wait until the first three layers are finished, then post photos of all the stages so far.
The fall schedule for the local art centre arrived yesterday.  I sometimes think they look at my [...]

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