In recent drawing exercises, I wanted to add some dimension and texture to portraits. This is mostly done using a variety of line shape, line size including length and thickness. We can also use line in shadowing areas or changing the direction of the sh ...
"Remain open, flexible, curious" - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Life's Little Instruction Book For the art class project this week for #wanderlust2021, the topic was to create a torn paper collage with paint. We could put paint down first and add torn paper ...
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.--Charles Dickens So on my last blog I mentioned I was taking a year-long series of art classes called #wanderlust2021adven ...
"Surprise loved ones with little unexpected gifts." H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Life's Little Instruction Book The holidays are upon us and despite the Covid 19 virus I am still planning to exchange gifts with family and friends. In my previous posting, I i ...
"No one ever excused his way to success." --Dave Del Dotto, How to Make Nothing But Money I heard a news story the other day about a young man, an architect who was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The surgery to remove the tumor affected his eye sight a ...
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." --Theodore Hesburgh - Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes Hi readers. Sorry it's been over a week since I last posted. I was a little under the weather with a head cold. ...
"Marriage should be a duet--when one sings, the other claps." --Joe Murray Wedding Photo enhanced on memory book page design This posting is not so much about technique, but how I choose elements in my design to communicate message and mood of my ...