Tag: strawberries
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Drawing a Conclusion
My big mistake in “Broken Promise”, as it shall now be named, is that I forgot what I’m about. I draw. I get into a state of mindfulness, where’s there’s just me, the subject, and pencil and paper. Read my intro, is says that I love to draw, but enjoy color too, or some such…
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Missed the Boat…
Every so often, I do something that, to me, is unacceptable. In other words I….fail. Usually I don’t redo the ones that miss the mark, but this time I will. The featured picture is probably the best of the tries I made of this idea. I did it when I was painting with acrylic, rhinestones…
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Colored Pencil Hypnosis Technique
So, I’ve finished the piece, “Wild Strawberries”, with all the dot, dot, dots. I’m getting very sleepy. Maybe it had something to do with Pumpkin meowing at 4:00 am, last night…or maybe the repetitive work of filling in a background in minute detail will tire a person out. Probably, both are true. This drawing reminds…
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A Brief History of My Relationship with Strawberries
So, I’m fighting a bit of a summer cold, and working on the full-sized strawberry patch picture. Rather than lay out the whole composition before I filled in the details, this time I decided to let it flow….and fill in the details as I went along. I thought it would be less tedious that way.…
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I Should Know Better.
Sunday morning seems to be the worst time for publishing a blog post. So, here I am, and raring to go. Maybe my readers are still sleeping, or worshiping, or maybe going to a pleasant brunch! So… I finished the strawberry note card last night. I’m trying to decide whether it would make a good,…
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Still Life Does Not Mean Dead Life..
Whenever I’ve gone to an art show, I’ve always found the obligatory displays of painting and fruit to be pretty boring. Yes, I realize there’s a matter of technique, but I’ve always thought of such things as elementary lessons in drawing and painting, an exercise, until you are skilled enough to do more ambitious subject…
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