Here’s a plan for the typical three-hour quick sketch session: First half-hour—One- and three-minute poses. Follow the example of Michael Hampton’s Figure Drawing: Design and Invention, p. 38, and focus on the placement of landmarks. Second half-hour—Five-minute poses. Start with the same landmarks, but add more volume and contour. … Continue reading The Plan
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Ipad Drawing of Back Alley in the Twin Cities
This is a new Ipad drawing from a photo I took about a year ago when I was in the Twin Cities for the big Rembrandt exhibit. This is about a block away from the Minnesota Institute of the Arts, where all the Rembrandts were. It was a great show and I learned a lot… Continue reading Ipad Drawing of Back Alley in the Twin Cities
Portrait of a Friend
After my friend Richard saw a watercolor self-portrait I did a few weeks ago, he asked me to do his portrait and sent me some photographs to work from. He probably expected a watercolor, but this is the result, done using Procreate on my iPad. There's a lot more smoothing in this picture than I'm… Continue reading Portrait of a Friend
Early Morning at Olbrich Park
I kept meaning to “finish” this iPad drawing I did last summer looking east from the top of the sledding hill at Olbrich Park. I never got around to working on it again, so I'm now declaring it done. After all, we need something to remember the sun with this gray spring weather. I believe… Continue reading Early Morning at Olbrich Park
Flowers for Easter
Some tulips for spring and Easter weekend that I originally bought for Lesley's birthday. I drew the sketch with my new Pilot “Young Rex” (dumb name) fountain pen with mixed Waterman black and brown ink, and then watercolor over that. I didn't realize how architectural the vase is until I just looked at the picture… Continue reading Flowers for Easter
More Color Studies
This assignment in David Hornung's book Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers is to make one color look like two. The Inkpad app on my Ipad is perfect for this. It's really easy to make a template with two big squares and two small ones and then just copy it for each new attempt.… Continue reading More Color Studies
More Color Studies
This time the studies are painted in gouache (opaque watercolor), so as you can see a little cruder. But it's trickier to mix the paint instead of just moving some sliders in a computer program. Gouache, I'm finding, has it's own quirks. I can't use as much water as I do with watercolor and… Continue reading More Color Studies
Framed Watercolor
I matted and framed two of the alla prima watercolors from the P&C Monday open studio, just to see how they look, but also so I could put them on the wall and look at them. This is “Green Woman.” I'm hoping to mat and frame paintings as I do them and then have a… Continue reading Framed Watercolor
Color Studies
These are the first color studies I've done based on David Hornung's book “Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers.” I started out intending to do the studies in gouache on paper, but I found that in the back of the book Hornung includes a section on doing some of the studies digitally. A… Continue reading Color Studies
Color 2: Chromatic Grays
This is my studio table with materials recommended by David Hornung to use in doing his exercises (David Hornung, “Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers”–see an earlier post for more about the book). The palette and cups are from Hobby Lobby. They hold the eleven M. Graham gouache paints and cool dark and warm… Continue reading Color 2: Chromatic Grays
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