Within Reach

What I know best

drawn hand, drawing hand

More craft paper drawings

something new

...under "The Sun"
mostly drawings from photos
Ball point pen*, white charcoal, on craft paper*,  small format
Practicing cross hatching, use of lights & darks to create volume
18" x 24" sheet, folds to 8 / 6" x 9" drawings per sheet

6"x 9"

18" x 24"

roll of craft paper*

* Impermanence :)

Final Life Drawing for 2015

Community of Artists

Technically speaking, naked implies that a person is unprotected or vulnerable. 

Naked, also describes something that is unadorned or without embellishment, 
as in the oft-mentioned naked truth. 

Nude, on the other hand, means one thing: unclothed.

Can we talk

Can I talk to myself?

Learning new stuff all the time easily can move from exciting, and an adventure, to a brain freeze and emotional instability, with the hope it is not irreparable and that someday the new will integrate into the old and the expansiveness will at least be beneficial to one person, namely me. Breath.

I do not know if I will ever get a (brush, or pen) handle, on line and form, value and in my case, intensity. I'm not even sure I can say I enjoy this point of the process of discovery. I feel like I went down the rabbit hole.

Oh yeah, the stuff I'm working on is exciting and all, but this week I had an experience of fearing the blank paper! Were did the expectations pop into my consciousness?  I've got plenty of paper, paint and time. I think it is all about stretching beyond a comfort zone. Or empathy training.

Dancer

20 one minute poses

1 minute poses

5 minute pose

20 minute

20 minute_in less than 20

2 x 20's

2 x 20's

Process

in progress

pallet

1/2 sheet

Clouds

Appropriately

A reminder that I'm not restricted to clouds...persimmons!

1. watercolor dries lighter than when applied

a. i just learned to paint with darks and love it

b. that new skill doesn't apply to clouds

c. I may need to apply a lighter touch 

d. hahahahahahahahaha

2. practice smaller samples of what I'm attempting

a. between demos

b. even toned wash

c. underpainting, layering too

d. label colors and techniques

3. work on multiple projects

a. sounds horrible 

b. describes my life 

c. familiar method to achieves focus

d. learn and improve skills

Ridiculously Difficult

Worn Out

Water Color

Pick up where I left off

completed

Practice clouds

Tiny Half Dome

Since then

Day after

No more yogurt

Garden and parking lot

Spilling

Vanishing line 

Last lines of 'This Morning' Raymond Carver

Early morning concentration and cooperation

Mid Term Critique

Squirrel Memorial 

Trained eye

Trained feet

Master work

My work

in sight

This drawing IS a big deal for me. I don't even believe I did it. I understand time patience seeing better than before I did these copies. This is a mark making I had no idea I could do because even though I could see the shapes, values, light, my hand went to the two dimensional. What I know now is my early training, work and teachers that attracted me, influenced my hand eye mind. Anything we repeat over and over for many years takes time patience and seeing differently to gradually incorporate those changes. 

work in progress

beginning another 

Van Gogh

Twig Pencils

in progress 

I learn  by copying the master 

As all masters have done before me

(curiosity willingness expansion joy)

If a fellow student 'artist' doesn't paint a subject 

because she doesn't know how yet 

(belief  fear  self judgement  criticism)

Is that the same as painting and not sharing 

either thru exhibit, selling, teaching

(how to share my art and not be a business)

Yes. As of now I don't believe it is worth sharing

How will I know it is if i don't do 'it'*

(*exhibiting marketing sales 'business') 

What I don't know

How to do art for arts sake 

(art as playing is how I approach my work)

Ahh!

my practice

(revealed)

What is drawing?

Method, tools, materials?

Graphite / craft paper

Charcoal & nupastel / craft paper

Sumi ink / white gouashe  / watercolor
Sumi brushes / bamboo pens / watercolor brushes

Sumi ink / white goush / watercolor
Sumi brushes / bamboo pens / watercolor brushes