Month: February 2009
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Emergency Still Life
I have been walking the walls all day today. Leaving the house would mean leaving my bride home alone with a cranky, croupy Girl2. We do a pretty good job as long as we can tag team. The Bride doesn’t lose patience with the kiddo (much), but she sure can with me! So, trapped in…
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Stegasaurs in The Great Valley
I got absolutely nothing that I planned to do this weekend accomplished. I know it’s just Saturday and there’s still tomorrow, but really I had big plans. Maybe next weekend. Anyway, I spent all day at work moving stuff around the pipe yard. We have important visitors coming this week so we are doing some…
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Free Drawing
Tonight, the challenge was to draw anything I wanted… or a vegetable. While I was trying to decide what I wanted to draw that was not a vegetable, a woman came on TV that I thought had interesting folds of flesh in her face. She was heavy, but still pretty. This looks nothing like her. …
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Drinking Glass
Tonight’s EDM challenge was to draw a drinking glass. I purposely avoid drawing metal and glass, so this was particularly intimidating for me. Once I drew it, though, I had to do it again in pen and watercolor. I really like this medium better. One of the biggest reasons I took on the EDM challenge…
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Concrete Grapes and Thing-a-day 4
I once read an article lamenting the fact that it was hard to make a black and white rose look soft and not look like concrete. Tonight’s EDM challenge was to draw a piece of fruit. How do you make graphite fruit not look like concrete? We had a lot of fun tonight with the…