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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Losers and Keepers

Saturday, June 27, 2009

I’m in the process of going through my possessions, deciding what to keep and what to purge. I made this sketch showing some books I’ll be holding on to and some that I’ll be forgetting about. Books are special objects to me and I often connect their ownership to certain people and circumstances. It was […]

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Various

Sunday, June 21, 2009

I’ve had a lot on my mind lately and haven’t felt very coherent. I made this sketch of an old woman deep in thought while deep in thought myself. Here are some odd tidbits that I’ve been thinking about: My friend Kimberly Shaw of Kimberly Shaw Graphics had her lovely teacup designs ripped off by […]

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The Power of Less

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Blind Contour David. Ballpoint. 2005. It’s not normal that I post a book review here, especially a non art related book. I recently finished reading The Power of Less by Leo Babauta (author of the famous Zen Habits blog) and I found it so helpful that I thought someone else out there might appreciate it […]

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Early Drawings

Monday, June 15, 2009

Recently, I’ve been sorting through some possessions that I’ve had stored at my parent’s house. I found a treasure trove of finished sketchbooks and also many loose drawings that I did years ago. I found this drawing that I drew from a photo in a magazine in 1999 when I was sixteen years old. I […]

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A Real Indian Woman

Friday, June 12, 2009

She is Real, as in not some Bollywood actress. I was unhappy with my first attempt and I tried it again here. I’m still unhappy, but am sick of it and will now move onto something else. My drawings are feeling too fussy to me. Recently I found myself looking through some very old work […]

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Sketching Our Clutter

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

All of these glasses belong to the same person, not me. They are of all different prescriptions, and most of them aren’t even used anymore. I wandered around the house collecting these and there were more than could fit on one page.

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Nose Jobs

Friday, June 5, 2009

Confound the nose, there’s no end to it! (Thomas Gainsborough) -aged 13, at the Vatican Museum… There must be a cave somewhere with all of the noses. (Nicholas Brown) You can find a massive collection of art quotes on Robert Genn’s Resource of Art Quotations. I’ve been thinking of starting to make some portraits again, […]

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Scene from Snow Farm

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Scene from Snow Farm (8 x 10), dip pen and wash on Arches 140 lb cp, 5/31/09 I finished this on Sunday afternoon and handed it off Monday morning to be displayed in an arts fundraiser event being held at my workplace this week. I also donated it to be auctioned off at a silent […]

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