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Category Archives: experiments
More on that triad of inks
CMYK ink sketches Continue reading
A Triad of Inks
A Triad of Inks to play with. Continue reading
Playing with media
Playing with new media, shaking things up a bit… Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Everyday Sketches, experiments
Tagged experiments, mixed media, plant
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Poppies and Other Native Flowers
Poppies and other native vegetation.
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Posted in california, experiments, flowers, studies
Tagged california, california poppy, floral art, flower, location drawing, location drawings, poppy, urban sketch, urban sketchers, urban sketching
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Texture, Texture and more Texture
Texture is everywhere in my work this year. In a year that the pandemic took away my ability to touch things everywhere I go, that sense of touch worked it’s way back into my art. Continue reading
Posted in california, Everyday Sketches, experiments, Summer
Tagged location drawing, mixed media, point lobos, seaweed, texture, urban sketching
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Experiments with Flowers
Flowers aren’t like most still life subjects: they’re alive. Continue reading
Posted in Everyday Sketches, experiments, flowers, studies
Tagged floral, flower, mixed media
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Inspired by Chard
Exploring mark-making and the emotive power of line. Continue reading
Posted in composition, experiments, teaching
Tagged abstraction, chard, mark making, sketching playlab
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Looking through a fence
In trying to put this scene on paper, perhaps I was trying to solve the wrong problem: I wasn’t really interested in drawing the fence. I was interested in the experience of looking through the fence at this view beyond. Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Construction, Everyday Sketches, experiments
Tagged berkeley, cityscape, construction, fence, location drawings, urban sketch, urban sketching
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Color Obsessions
My current color obsession, if you haven’t noticed 🙂 Continue reading
Posted in experiments, studies, tools
Tagged apache sunset, apache sunset ink, color obsession, color theory, orange
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More Spring Flower Experiments
More spring flower experiments Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, experiments, flowers, printmaking, studies
Tagged flowers, iris, poppies, spring, tulip
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