Month: February 2009
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Farewell Thing-a-day
Well, as February officially comes to a close, so does Thing-a-day 2009. I have had a lot of fun experimenting with different mediums and exercising my creativity every day. However, it’s time to clean up and move on. I’ve learned a lot with this challenge. I will continue to exercise my imagination, but I don’t…
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Apple and a Holiday
Tonight for Thing-A-Day, I decided to experiment with layers of watercolor pencil. I like the overall effect. I need to figure out how to smooth out the brush strokes, but I really like the way the colors overlap. Tonight’s EDM challenge was to draw something “Holiday”. The next holiday up is St. Patrick’s Day. My…
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Virtual Sketch Date February 2009
It is time once again for the Virtual Sketch Date. For those unfamiliar, they post a reference photo once a month and everybody does their take on it. Then we all post our sketches for the world to see both on our sites and on the flickr site. I tried something different this month in…
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Water Pump and a Dog
We live in a 100+ year old house. At some point, one of the previous residents decided they wanted indoor plumbing. My studio/office space is a room built off of the back porch to include this water pump. State of the art, eh? We find remnants like this all over the house. My favorite is…
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I draw dinosaurs when I'm tired
My beautiful young bride and Girl2 stayed with the inlaws for the last couple of nights. That left me without much incentive to go to bed at a decent time. Then when I did go to bed, I had too much room. Tonight, I’ve brought them all home and life is good. Except that it…