This is my bottle project. I did it!
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by Melissa Messer
This is my bottle project. I did it!
Read MoreOn a cool Wednesday we put away our easels at the end of our morning session and pulled up stools or sat on the floor in a semi-circle around Juliette.
Read MoreMyron Barnstone was my teacher’s first teacher.
Read MoreToday we looked at plates made from sketchbooks of the old master draftsmen (Rubens, Poussin, Da Vinci and Dürer to name a few) and talked about their methods.
Read MoreIf you want a comprehensive text about the psychological and technical aspects of fine drawing, look no further than Harold Speed’s The Practice & Science of Drawing (1917).
Read MoreWouldn’t you know it. Amidst pencil honing, cast drawing and attempts at monastic focus, life was going on simultaneously.
Read MoreDay two.
Read MoreThe really early stuff I totally nailed it and went to 6 a.m. yoga like a boss with a packed breakfast and lunch and day clothes and face wash and everything.
Read MoreEarlier this evening while I was sitting on the couch sharpening pencils for tomorrow, Billy my mother-in-law’s boyfriend read me some facts about pencils.
Read MoreI keep thinking about a note a friend sent over the weekend:
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