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10/25/2024

It's been a busy time. Reading and writing essays for College Writing; drawing, sketching, cutting, gluing, and coloring for Studio I; and making collages, constructing wire frames and other 3D art for Core I. I am also doing extra drawings in an attempt to improve my drawing skills. The pictures below are done with watercolor paint and pencils, charcoal, graphite pencil, colored pencils, cyanotype (chemical sun prints), markers, india ink, 16 g and 18 g mild steel wire, pages from magazines, acorns, lichen, and tree branches.

I thought I would post more pictures from both art classes and my extra sketches. Not everything is here and they are not in any order but I hope you enjoy them.

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Completing a Challenge

10/1/2024

Most of my drawings have been still life's so I was challenged in class to draw from life. I have wanted to do this but have been a bit scared because, even though I am getting better, at times I don't the the perspective or proportions correct. So I went through my phone and found a good close up of Boots' nose and asked if that would be acceptable and I was given not only a resounding YES but an awww. The teacher said I could grid the picture and my drawing paper to assist in getting the proportions and scale correct. The other thing that helped me was that over the past two weeks we have been working in charcoal to get all shades of white, gray, black and everything in-between. I was going to use just colored pencils only to find out I did not have one that was black. I ended up using the water color pencils with and without water, some colored pencils, and a bit of water color paint for the whiskers in places. The 3 most prevelent colors are black for her fur and black plus gray for those those transition areas.

The last image is Boots' response to her portrait as posted on FB.

More Work from Class

Completing a Challenge

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