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Day 43 at Home: Little sketches through the day
Day 43 at Home:Little sketches through the day #sketchathome #stayhome #peoplesketching #uskathome
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Posted in Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, san jose, Silicon Valley
Tagged Everyday Sketches, instalive, people sketching, sketching at home, skull
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Poppies, Poppies and more Poppies!
Last week was poppy week. I taught a workshop based on a request to share this “loose and free” approach to flowers. What I loved most of all is that even though we all followed the same process and worked … Continue reading
Posted in Paintings, studies, teaching, watercolor, Workshop
Tagged fall, floral, halloween, painting, poppies, pumpkin, skull, watercolor, watercolor painting
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Pumpkins and Skulls
Boo! Continue reading
Posted in watercolor
Tagged gourd, halloween, painting, pumpkin, skull, watercolor, watercolor painting
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Midway point: #30x30DirectWatercolor2018
A Half-time review of #30x30directwatercolor2018
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Posted in challenge, Everyday Sketches, Paintings, people, watercolor
Tagged #30x30DirectWatercolor2018, coffeeshop, direct watercolor, mexico, skull
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Direct Watercolor, a weekend of catchup
Day 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the #30x30DirectWatercolor2018 challenge. Continue reading
Posted in california, challenge, Close to home, Drink, Everyday Sketches, Food, watercolor
Tagged #30x30DirectWatercolor2018, challenge, cocktail, direct watercolor, directwatercolor, fruit, gin and tonic, nectarien, peach, skull
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Direct Watercolor Strategy #5: Paint something familiar
Here’s another direct watercolor strategy I plan to rely on: Strategy #5: Paint Something Familiar Something you know well, have drawn before, draw often…it could be anything. For me, it’s Walter. Walter is a human skull model that sits on … Continue reading
Posted in challenge, teaching, watercolor
Tagged #30x30DirectWatercolor2018, 30x30directwatercolor, direct watercolor, sketch, skull, walter
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Inktober 2017, Part 2
Week 2 of #inktober . How’s your inktober going? Continue reading
Posted in Everyday Sketches, people, Uncategorized
Tagged ink, inktober, inktober 2017, pen and ink, people, skull
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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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Inktober, week 3
Week 3 of Inktober in little sketches Continue reading
Posted in Doodles, Everyday Sketches, Uncategorized
Tagged hands, homework, inktober, kids, pen and ink, selfie, skull
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Little sketches: Inktober, Week 2
Another week of Inktober and I’m quite pleased to have stuck with it for 16 days. Hoping to make it through the end of the month, a little inking everyday. Are you doing the Inktober challenge? If you are, what are your … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Uncategorized
Tagged everyday sketch, flowers, homework, mouse, persimmon, skull, vintage signage
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