Month: August 2009
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Portrait WIP II
Last Week I started a portrait of some friends’ toddler son. At the rate I’m going, it’ll be finished just in time for him to start college. Somehow I managed to find a few blocks of time to do a little more this week. In twenty or thirty minute blocks, I worked a bit on…
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EDM 127 View Through a Doorway
I get the urge to do the Everyday Matters Challenges late at night. (That’s 9 or 10 p.m. for us old people.) So, in the morning when my lovely wife comes downstairs and sees a dining room chair in the hallway, she immediately begins looking for my sketchbook to see what I’ve done. Immediately is,…
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Caution!
I really like these little challenges like Illustration Friday. They post a new topic for you to draw every Friday, hence the name. I also like to get them done early in the week so that I can encourage as many others as possible to participate. This week’s challenge is “Caution.” There are few places…
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Portraiture Patience
I don’t normally do portraits. I don’t usually have the patience for them. For me, they take a very long time, especially considering that I don’t do them often so I’m not practiced at all. However, lately I’ve had a hankerin’ to do something special for a friend of mine. I’m not sure I’ll be…
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Site Updates
Over the next week or so I will be making some long overdue updates to the site. I try to avoid this (like the plague) because it almost always involves dozens of broken links and mislabeled images. The Every Day Matters (EDM) gallery has overgrown and produces a server time out before all of the…