©2012 Carolyn A Pappas, 4-23-2012 sketchbook page (window), Graphite in 8.5 x 11 inch sketchbook.
A chilly, rainy, gray/grey day – perfect for pencil sketching out the widow.
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 ©2012 Carolyn A Pappas, Cate on her Morning Nap. Graphite in 8.5 x 11 inch sketchbook. Cate is four months old now. The time really is going by quickly and she is already so much different than when she was born. She has been trying to roll over for the past two months and she finally managed to do it last week. I am thankful for her every day!
Recently, I made some updates to my website. I added a static homepage with a painting and a concise artist statement. I wanted to give my site a more professional overall feel and I noticed some people were confused when they landed straight onto my blog. I’m planning on changing out the picture every so often with a current one. I also reorganized my portfolio page according to medium instead of subject matter. Updating my portfolio with new work is going to be a major focus of mine over the next few months.  ©2012 Carolyn A Pappas, Sketches of Katie. Ink in sketchbook. I have always liked leap day, as it is a rare day. Plus, it’s supposed to snow today. Yay! I thought I would share some links I have come across recently: Vivien Blackburn has been experimenting with Derwent Coloursoft colored pencils over watercolor, with very nice results. It makes me want to do more experimenting myself, along these lines. Lisa Call wrote a nice blog Advice to Emerging Artists: You are not a Fraud about writing an artist statement, or writing about your artwork in general. I appreciated the encouraging words.  ©2012 Carolyn A Pappas, Ashtrays. Graphite, colored pencil and marker in 8.5 x 11 inch sketchbook. I sketched it twice. The sketch on the left was first and I was off quite a bit. I came closer to the actual object on my second sketch (right). Elipses were never my cup of tea (whose are they, anyway?). I could fill up a sketchbook of practice sketches and still be improving.  ©2011 Carolyn A. Pappas, Whippet Sketch 1. Sanguine Pitt pen in large handbook journal. I did some multitasking one evening, alternating between reading, listening to the TV and sketching Ruben (whenever he changed position). I felt so productive.  ©2011 Carolyn A. Pappas, Whippet Sketch 2. Sanguine Pitt pen in large handbook journal.  ©2011 Carolyn A. Pappas, Cate (12-27-2011). Graphite in 8.5 x 11 inch sketchbook. My girl is two months old. I’m looking forward to getting to know Cate better over the upcoming year. I hope all my readers also have a year full of blessings.  ©2011 Carolyn A. Pappas, Rose Sketch (12-9-2011). Graphite in 8.5 x 11 inch sketchbook.  ©2011 Carolyn A. Pappas, 12-17-2011 (Triangles). Ink in large handbook sketchbook. I’ve been posting to Pinterest for the past few months, whenever I find an interesting image that I want to save. Pinterest is a great site for finding online inspiration, and I love to browse through other people’s pins. If you use Pinterest, feel free to follow me, and leave a comment so I can follow you.  ©2011 Carolyn A. Pappas, Small Katie Sketches. Pen in large handbook sketchbook. Above are some small sketches of Katie, and not very good ones at that, done over the course of a few days. Whenever I sketch Katie, or any animal, most of my sketches are no good and only a few really please me. It is such good practice and so much fun that I keep doing it though. |
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