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Category Archives: Colored Pencil

#twitterartexhibit, expanding worldwide

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

David Sandum, who spearheaded the first two twitter art exhibits in his home city of Moss, Norway, has now expanded the concept by organizing different exhibits around the world to raise funds for various charitable causes. He was so kind to choose me to be one of the honorary ambassadors! I was thrilled to participate […]

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20th Century American Drawings

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

When I was at the museum last week I also stopped by to see the exhibit of 20th Century American Drawings. There were a number of drawings in colored pencil, including one by Childe Hassam that I really liked. I was only vaguely familiar with this artist, but I think I am going to look […]

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Happy Wednesday before Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving has always been a special day for me. In earlier years, it was always a traveling day with the promise of a late night Thanksgiving dinner with many relatives. This year, we are starting a different tradition of having Thanksgiving with immediate family, so this Wednesday feels a bit different for […]

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Additional Evening Skies

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Here are some more of my sunset sketches, drawn while sitting on my back deck. I’m glad I took the time and braved the mosquitoes to sketch them. They really capture a lot of memories from this past summer.

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Evening Skies

Monday, August 13, 2012

I’ve been paying attention to skies lately. In New England, we don’t have big wide skies like in the West because of all the trees and buildings that block the view. Some of the only places to see a lot of sky are over a lake, or on top of a mountain. I once read […]

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Colored Pencil Exercises, Part 4

Sunday, August 5, 2012

In my fourth and final colored pencil class we worked on portraits from a model. I only did this one other time in 2009 so I was really out of practice (to say the least). There were people in the class who had never drawn a portrait before (so I didn’t feel that self conscious). […]

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Colored Pencil Exercises, Part 3

Sunday, July 29, 2012

My latest colored pencil class was a bit unusual for me, as we worked on abstracts. Although I have made abstract drawings in my sketchbooks before, it’s rare that I have the desire to dabble in them. We started off by sketching in the Contemporary Gallery, featuring the exhibition Carrie Moyer: Interstellar. We were to […]

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Colored Pencil Exercises, Part 2

Sunday, July 22, 2012

We worked on still life in my second colored pencil class. As a warmup, when people were still filtering in, the instructor gave us an object in a bag and we were to draw it only by feel (no peeking). I got a pulley and I didn’t recognize what it was, which I think made […]

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Colored Pencil Exercises

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Last week I attended the first class of a four part colored pencil workshop at the Worcester Art Museum. We sketched in the museum (European galleries) after hours, which I’ve never done before. Then we went back to the studio and sketched some simple still lifes. I will have a review of the whole class […]

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A Mild Winter

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Here is my latest colored pencil painting, entitled A Mild Winter. It was based on a photo I took this past winter in scenic Leyden, MA. If you subscribe to my newsletter, you have seen my work in progress photos over the past few months. I took my time on this piece, working when Cate […]

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