In the spirit of my 2014 “I Dare Me!” challenge to do something new everyday, I just HAD to purchase this strange fruit that shared a shelf with rambutan and dragon fruit. It’s called Buddha Hand or Fingered Citron, and I have NO idea what to do with it…except photograph (and eventually draw) it!
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One of the things I enjoy about Art Every Day Month is viewing the works of other participants, and receiving their comments about mine. I’ve been enjoying Tobi Kibel Piatek’s “taking a line for a walk” pieces so tried one of my own. My lines were curvy one direction and straight the other. As I […]
I was reading about blackout poems the other day, and last night I had the urge to try one. Problem was, I was in a hotel room with no newspapers in sight. So, I used a page from the Gideon Bible! I think the results are somewhat Rumi-esque: I will be strong and courageous with […]
Last night I made a chili dinner for 36 of my cohousing neighbors. I billed it as “Grandma Nellie’s Famous Chili” but the reality is that in most of my memories, it was my father making the chili. (My mom never did.) There seemed to be only two types of cooking available to the men […]
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More iPad painting today. Several of my favorite art mentore point out the value of copying and tracing as learning tools. I find it terribly fun to download an image, trace the outline on another layer, delete the original and then just have my way with it! This Mona Lisa was done in about an […]
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Assignment #40 from Carla Sonheim’s Drawing Lab. I love this book – fifty-two prompts for getting started with a drawing. Because isn’t that often the hardest part, looking at that blank page and wondering what to do?
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Spent some time today experimenting with drawing on my iPad. Many of my colleagues use tablets for much of their graphic work but I do not enjoy it much. I haven’t practiced enough for it to flow effortlessly and keep wanting to JUST GRAB A PEN ALREADY!! Plus the results always seem crude, my line […]
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