This has been the most brutally obsessive project I have done at the atelier heretofore.
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All articles filed in Technique
Reading the Body
Instead of blogging I’ve been reading!
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Learning to Draft
In the tradition of the great master draftspeople, we’re continuing to explore the geometry of design.
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The Bottle Arrangement
Where have I been all week? you might ask. Drawing these bottles!
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Hitting the Bottle
This is my bottle project. I did it!
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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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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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