Tag: rain
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Here,and there
I’m really enjoying doing these little drawings. For now, at least. Less in the way of time, expense and aggravation. Did I mention aggravation? Yes,I guess I did. What keeps going around in my mind.. Are any of these worthy of the time and effort of large versions? So far, I am going to keep…
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Autumn Already?
Yes, it’s fall, and I’m enjoying it. Today was a crisp, bright day, with a sapphire sky. I went to the local farmer’s market. Apple and pears abounded-not to mention pumpkins. No, I’m not talking about my cat again. I’m talking about the raw materials for jack-o-lanterns. My very first autumn picture in colored pencil…
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I think I’m getting moldy.
Oregon, no doubt, is a beautiful state. I remember one day, arriving in Portland to visit my sister, only to be surprised at the sweet, perfumed air. I looked to see bounties of roses growing by the sidewalk. Only, I don’t know how I’d do in all that rain! I asked my sister how she…
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Wasting No Time
I said I was eager to get back to the rainbow drawing. As soon as I was finished with the pet portrait, I got right back on it. It looks, still, quite a bit like the smaller version, but I drew the rainbow in with a lot of white space, a la impressionism, to give…
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Every Rainbow Starts With a Storm…or a Sketch as the Case My Be
So, her’e the rough sketch…and rough it is. It’s painfully lacking in interesting details, but then, that’s what sketches are for. In the past, I would jump in full-sized, with no prior sketch, and waste mucho dollars on paper, doing version after version. I now eliminate problems from having done the sketch…and since the paper…
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