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Last week in small sketches
Working on large projects, especially when they’re approaching deadlines means you don’t get much other drawing done. That’s when I am really glad I have a book to sketch small, quick sketches in. There’s always music practice to sketch. My … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, Figure Drawing, Paintings, san jose, Silicon Valley, Summer
Tagged cello, figure drawing, location drawing, music, people, people sketches, portrait, skull, urban sketchers, violin
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Good Reads: Value Studies
Good Reads: Painting What (You Want) to See by Charles Reid. Continue reading
Seattle, Part 2 of 2
More from Seattle. Continue reading
Posted in people, Seattle, teaching, Workshop
Tagged elephant car wash, location drawing, people, pike place market, post alley, seattle, seattle center, space needle, urban sketchers
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Seattle, Part 1 of 2
A spectacularly sunny weekend teaching in Seattle…and no, that’s not an oxymoron. Continue reading
Posted in Seattle, teaching, Uncategorized, Workshop
Tagged fish market, gum wall, location drawing, market, people, people sketching, people sketchng, pike place, pike place market, seattle, urban sketchers
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Another week in sketches
A weekly roundup… Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Doodles, Everyday Sketches, people, Portrait
Tagged landscape, location drawing, napa, napa valley, people, people sketching, urban sketchers, wine
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Last week’s little sketches
Everyday sketches from last week… Continue reading
One hundred people: a roundup
My biggest takeout from this week of people sketching is that to keep drawing people, they have to be more than just figures and anatomy to you: you have to be interested in people. And you have to enjoy the inevitable interaction that the process involves. Otherwise, people will remain “stuff you add to a scene to give it scale”. Continue reading
