Month: June 2009
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What if Leonardo had a camera?
Have you ever wondered what it would have been like if the great masters had cameras? I spent the week on vacation in a gorgeous setting, and everywhere I went I thought how beautiful a painting that would make. But during the day it was 100+ F. I couldn’t stand outside for more than a…
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Figuratively Speaking
Posted by mobile phone:The Oklahoma City Artist’s Guild hosts a figure drawing group every Tuesday night. The first two Tuesdays are mostly short poses, and the rest are long poses. Last week, a long pose session, the model assumed a pose when she first got there and was able to get back into that same…
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Adrift
Posted by mobile phone:On Tuesdays, I like to post whatever weekly challenges I’m participating in. Lately, the only weekly challenge I’ve been doing at all is http://IllustrationFriday.com . Many of the weekly and even monthly challenges I was interested in have gone on summer haitus… hiatus… vacation. (There’s no spell checking on my mobile phone.)…
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Experimentation Final!
For the past few weeks I have been posting on Monday’s Discovery about my attempts to turn a glue moistener into a large waterbrush. Then intent was to be able to shape the sponges and fill them with the color paint I wanted to lay down quickly. In playing with these, however, I have found…
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NHR FOREVER!
Posted by mobile phone:Tonight was the all school mixer dinner of my 20th High School reunion. Not only did I get to mix it up with a few old friends, but I got to show off my trophy wife! I, along with another outspoken member of my class, have been tapped to be the Masters…