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Let’s Pretend
As I browsed through the various workshops offered during this year’s “Sketchbook Revival”, one in particular caught my attention. It was titled Gold and Graphite Reverie, taught by Ida Andersen Lang....
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More Academic Drawing
A little over a year ago — March 2021 — I shared a sketch I’d made while following a demonstration by Ashley Bane Hurst. Perhaps you remember it. My drawing is quite basic. I’m not precise in all my...
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Making Messy Art
Many times I’ve said that creativity is “making a mess” — but that’s only part of it. The rest of it is “cleaning it up”. For me, that’s the truest definition I’ve ever heard about the creative...
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It Ain’t Me, Babe
If you’re old like me, you’ll remember this Bob Dylan classic. “It Ain’t Me, Babe” is said to be one of the greatest poems ever set to music, and as a huge fan of Dylan, I count it among my favorites....
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Close Your Eyes… And Draw
In learning art, we hear over and over again about how important it is that we LOOK at what we’re drawing, not necessarily at the marks we’re making, but definitely at our subject. In fact, in Keys to...
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School’s Out!
Being a life-long learner, I seem to naturally move with the rhythms of the school year. My excitement peaks each year in September as I make plans for new studies, and then as May comes around, I look...
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The Shadow Knows
I’m old enough to remember “The Shadow” radio program. Although it began in 1937, a bit before my time, it lasted until 1954, and I loved pretending to be scared silly by the ominous laugh and that...
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49 Dots and Other Drawing Exercises
In the summer of 2021 I downloaded an art instruction book by Barrington Barber — Learn to Draw: 10-Week Course for Aspiring Artists — and had a lot of fun drawing my way through the lessons. While I...
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Drawing Through
I learned something today. Of course, I try to learn something every day, and usually I do come across at least one new fact, one new idea, one new piece of information that I find interesting,...
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A Challenge to Myself
Many years ago I heard a motivational speech about overcoming our weaknesses. It’s not enough, the speaker advised, to simply overcome. What we should do, she explained, was to take a weakness and turn...
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