This is my bottle project. I did it!
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All articles filed in September 2014
In Art as in Life
On 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.
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A Toolbox Full of Triangles
Myron Barnstone was my teacher’s first teacher.
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You Can’t Outthink the Old Masters
Today 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.
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Harold Speed on Vision
If 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).
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Life Creeps In
Wouldn’t you know it. Amidst pencil honing, cast drawing and attempts at monastic focus, life was going on simultaneously.
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The Drawing Board
Day two.
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Day One
The 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.
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Pencils
Earlier 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.
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I keep thinking about a note a friend sent over the weekend:
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