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Thinking of Still Lifes

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Instead of keeping a wooden egg in my bowl, I now use it as a soap dish at the bathroom sink. The turquoise dish looks very nice with the green bar of olive oil soap I have in there right now. It is kind of rustic. I’m thinking of setting up a still life with […]

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Sketching with Marker

Thursday, September 30, 2010

This sketch was meant as a practice sketch for a painting that I have been meaning to do for some time. I took out my Tombow markers for it, which I don’t use too often. They are fun to work with as they have both a brush and fine line tip and I have about […]

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Packing Up and Moving On

Thursday, September 16, 2010

I am craving a neat house — I’m still working on that right now. Please excuse the slow posting these days. I am working on drawings, but I am on a bit of an internet hiatus.

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High Productivity

Sunday, September 5, 2010

This is a sketch I made of the ocean at low tide when I was visiting Ogunquit, Maine a few weeks ago. It was a nice mid week mini-trip and I took lots of reference photos. I will most likely start working from these when I finish the big drawing that I am working on […]

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NCMallory

Sunday, August 29, 2010

This was a fun drawing I made of NCMallory for Julia Kay’s Portrait Party. It was a relaxing portrait that I drew after work one day when I had the house to myself. I highly recommend his photostream as he is very talented and an all-around interesting guy. You can see all the artists’ interpretations of him here. He […]

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Some Cool Videos and a Cautionary Tale

Monday, August 16, 2010

I hope everyone had a great weekend and has a productive week ahead. Be sure to check back here later on this week because I am going to be posting details about a giveaway that I will be hosting. I’m excited! These are some cool videos that I came across recently. I hope you enjoy […]

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Works are in Progress

Friday, August 13, 2010

©2004 Carolyn A. Pappas, 8-12-2004 Sketchbook Page. Blue fountain pen ink in sketchbook. Right now I am blogging from someone else’s computer so I feel so awkward typing this. I don’t have anything new to show you yet, but I am in the process of making a “secret” drawing (at least until I give it […]

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Flashback

Friday, August 6, 2010

Keep your old work. You did it. There are virtues and there are faults in it for your to study. You can learn more from yourself than you can from anyone else. -Robert Henri in The Art Spirit I found my old, old sketchbook the other day when I was cleaning out through boxes of […]

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Julia Kay’s Portrait Party

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

In an effort to practice my portrait skills, I have joined Julia Kay’s Portrait Party group on flickr. Above you can see drawings I made of Anita Davies and croquisdenico. It is such a great opportunity to gain lots of practice with all kinds of different faces, as well as meet new artists on flickr. […]

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Happy Fourth

Saturday, July 3, 2010

To all my American readers, I hope you all have a wonderful Independence Day weekend. And to everyone else, I hope you have a great weekend as well. For myself, I hope this year is as good of a time for me as last year was. I will try to get some good sketching time in. […]

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