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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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Appreciate the Various Greens of Springtime

Monday, April 30, 2012

This is my favorite time of year to be outside appreciating the subtleties of nature. Springtime is the best time to experience the color Green in many different variations. The spring landscape is gorgeous here in New England. Above is a photo I took yesterday from the top of Poet’s Seat Tower. I made a […]

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Light to Dark

Monday, April 2, 2012

At my recent botanical illustration class, the teacher had us close our eyes for about two minutes and then open them and notice what drew our attention. She wanted us to see if we were drawn to the lighter areas or the darker areas of the room first. I noticed the light filtering in through […]

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Road through the Meadow

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Here is my finished colored pencil piece. I used Derwent Coloursofts and some Prismacolors. I did this for the Virtual Paintout (St Petersburg) so I’m glad I finished it before the end of the month! I ended up cropping some of the bottom off, which makes it an odd size, but I think it improves […]

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More work on the sky

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

I spent another few hours on my landscape, this time concentrating on the sky. The sky is the most dramatic part of this picture, and I want to finish it up before moving onto the rest of it.

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