Posts Tagged ‘pencil sketch’
Spring Cactus
May 18, 2012
Spring in Southern California brings out the cactus flowers which I’ve tried to capture in pencil on occasion without too much success; by the time I’m halfway into my drawing the flower begins opening up and I can’t go on. All the photos below were snapped on the same day in May at my neighbour’s [...]
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Visiting Portland
April 17, 2012
Morning light is yellowey-green. Yesterday I sat at a cafe sipping a Café au lait, eating purple and yellow macarones and sketching a fire hydrant. Chloe the cat was not overly impressed although my dog back home would have approved.
2012 | blog | Tags: drawing, Oregon, pencil sketch, Portland, sketchingComments (0)
What artists do
April 10, 2012
“I think that what artists do is they invent strategies that allow themselves to see in a way that they haven’t seen before – to extend their vision.” ~ Richard Serra, art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century, Essay by Susan Sollins. For me, my daily morning strategy involves drawing outside in order to ‘capture’ the [...]
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Cactus Flower
March 30, 2012
Drawing daily has become a meditation of sorts, a way to connect with the natural world and to revel in the sheer joy of process; the process of capturing a likeness. It feels almost devotional in it’s purity. But what it really does best, is inform my abstract work, Journey into Intimacy. From studying nature [...]
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Crow Spirit Medicine
March 28, 2012
With each new birth there is a small death. Spring has sprung and so I sketched a crow that died. He was tied with a wire around his legs to a fence made of sticks gathered from the chaparral surrounding us here in the inland valleys of rural Southern California. I am not responsible for [...]