Tag: changes
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I guess this is what I’m doing these days
Sometimes, I surprise myself. Sometimes, I’m surprised that I surprise myself. I thought the line of drawing styles went neatly from A to B to C, and so forth. I’m wrong. I did a drawing of a sky. I thought it would turn out like this: Much to my surprise, it didn’t. Am I using…
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I Make Good on My Promises
I finished the rose garden, but I plan on giving it a better name. My thought is it’s either a piece of genius, or a piece of fecal matter. My good friend assures me that it is neither, but she really likes it. So, here you go! A drawing of a rose garden that my…
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Blackout !
“I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway, I’ve seen the Empire State laid low.” – Billy Joel Right now, Rose Garden is going slowly. It’s through no fault of my own, but pet owners will understand. Pumpkin has taken up a new sleeping spot, right behind my easel. It’s a choice between letting…
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I Promise You a Rose Garden
Spoiler Alert! It will look something like this, but hopefully (there’s that word again, hopefully) much better. This, of course, is the preliminary sketch, Speaking of roses, I just sent a batch of note cards to a long lost friend. This of course which I know I have posted before. The detail and control…
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Alas
One of my friends calls this the “Psycho House”. I guess I can understand that. Maybe,you can see Norman Bates’ mother in the attic. That was not the intention of the drawing. The idea was the house’s windows were reflecting the dawn’s rosy colors. I always think of Psycho, now. Or an episode of the…
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Starting All Over, Again, Again
Can You Draw a Bicycle? I thought this article was pretty amusing. Of course, drawing from imagination is a challenge. Most of my life I’ve used photos or life as reference, but now I start out on a new quest (self-indulgence is great). I’m drawing from imagination. Pertinent to this is drawing a bicycle from…
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The Devil is in the Details
My father was a detail man. He was a commercial artist, and his specialty was filling in the designs on the fabric of shirts, pants, diamonds, and just about anything else that was advertised. I can’t imagine how he had the patience to do such a thing, but, perhaps it’s just that it was income,…
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Moving right along….
It all started with my friend suggesting I do a picture of the door in this photograph: And so, because of my life experiences at the time…..it became a picture of a vacant living space, signifying the changes we all go through in life. I meant it to be sad, more of a winsome look…
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