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Category Archives: Portrait
Monday Morning: Little sketches
Here are some of last week’s little sketches. While my little sketches, mostly done at home, don’t vary much in subject matter, I still enjoy just the act of making them, sometimes trying new stuff, but mostly just doing something over and over … Continue reading
Posted in people, Portrait, san jose, Uncategorized
Tagged family, fig, food, ink, kids, location drawings, music, pear, people, portrait, urban sketchers, violin
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Quiet time at the library
Quiet sketches at the library Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Portrait, Uncategorized
Tagged Almaden Library, location drawings, people, San Jose Public Library, urban sketchers
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Magical Leg Splints
Sketching my everyday. Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Portrait, san jose, Silicon Valley
Tagged kids, location drawings, people, splints, urban sketch, urban sketchers
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Drawing Crowe, telling jokes
A photon walks into a hotel. The guy at the front desk says, “Welcome! Can we help you with your luggage?” The photon says, “No thanks, I’m traveling light.” Continue reading
Posted in Figure Drawing, Portrait
Tagged chalk, charcaol, figure, figure drawing, life drawing, watercolor
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A quick approach to mixing skintones
Every so often I get asked what colors I use to mix skintones. And my first response is “It depends on the skintone and the light”. While that’s true, there still is a loose color-mixing strategy I start with, and … Continue reading
Posted in Figure Drawing, How to, people, Portrait
Tagged color mixing, figure drawing, location drawings, people, skintones, urban sketchers, watercolors
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Portraits for a Fundraiser
Every year, my kid’s elementary school has a fundraiser and I paint little portraits to raise money for school. It’s 3 minute portraits at 5 dollars a portrait. Today I painted 40 of them in 4 hours. Here are some photos from the … Continue reading
Small moments from a big wedding: The Mehendi ceremony
I was recently at a family wedding. A very big family wedding. My sketches don’t capture the huge festivities, the pomp and splendor, the crowds of hundreds and sometimes thousands of people who attended the four days of festivities. What I have instead are little vignettes, mostly … Continue reading
Posted in India, people, Portrait, Travel
Tagged airplane, ceremony, india, indian wedding, location drawing, mehendi, tradition, urban sketch, wedding
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