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Sketching Addiction

I’m sketching from life a lot lately. I stop what I’m doing at about 3:00 each day, grab the messenger bag that I’ve stuffed with drawing supplies, and head for our meadow. After six laps around the meadow, I’m trying to loose weight, I settle down and draw.
Flowers, sprouting leaves, and things that catch my [...]

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I Don’t Paint, I Draw

Color is a distraction. It pulls the attention away from the subject and re-focuses it on the surface of the art. Yes, I know that color has lots and lots of emotional impact, but I’d rather bring the viewer deeper into the art.
I want your eyes to follow the shape of the subject deep under [...]

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Consolidating and Keeping Close to the Heart

I love to chase rabbits! Love to follow ideas to see where they’ll take me. I love the energy of the chase and I use it to start new projects. Planning is not my strong point, imagination and spontaneous invention are. In the past few months, I’ve started quite a few projects and, in order [...]

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Precision Drawing Does Not Equal Over Rendering

I think there is a big misconception about drawing with precision. A lot of people think it leads to drawings that look over rendered or “tight.” I can understand how they think exactness leads to harshness, but it’s not true. Overly tight drawing is not a precision problem, it’s a lack of seeing problem.
If you [...]

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Molly at the Window

Here’s the current progress on my miniature drawing of Molly the cat. If you’re screen resolution is 1280 x 800, you’re seeing this drawing at about actual size.
After creating a light line drawing on my paper, I brushed value into the background because it’s easier to create a soft edged texture, like Molly’s fur, over [...]

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More on Miniatures

I’ve been talking about drawing miniatures in the Drawing Club, too, and a few people asked me to put together some tips about drawing them. I’ve done that and you can find it here.
I’m getting ready to begin a new drawing using this fairly awful photo of my cat Molly. The shadows are completely black [...]

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I’m a Miniaturist

I’ve been thinking about drawing miniatures again lately. I work small naturally but, although most of my work would probably be considered “miniature” by most people, I have an on again off again emotional block to being labeled as a miniaturist. If you look in my gallery, you’ll see “Miniature Art” in the file structure. [...]

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