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Watercolor – spring class 1

Last night began phase two of my rediscovery of watercolor painting. We had a lovely model with poise and very good posture, but her poses we basically all the same.…
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casting kent

Last night I spent some time studying with Brett, a master of molding and casting. He is making a mold and two castings of my sculpture “Kent.” We inserted shims,…
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Kent Cast 1

notes i took while doing the first part of the kent cast: rubber mold step 1. process notes: shim first, then shellack when shimming, do it like roofs when going…
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brendappct

Brenda’s parents will be celebrating their 50th anniversary – fifty years of marriage! – later this month. Brenda and I met and discussed what characteristics and symbols she’d like the…
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artist cards

After nearly 6 months of procrastinating, I finally got my act together and designed some artist contact cards (like business cards, but for an artist). I’m quite pleased with all…
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last day

Last night we had a very pale woman model for us. She was excited because she just got an acting part earlier in the afternoon and she multitasked through her…
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penultimate

Last night I had the combined joys of a wonderful model and new high-quality hot-pressed watercolor paper. I’m starting to think that I just paint men better than women. This…
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green atala

David finally let go of Jenny’s old Atala road bike; it was sold on ebay for a respectable price. Before the bike gets shipped off, I wanted to capture a…
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roxanne

Last night I put Roxanne, my track bike, in an interesting angle underneath a powerful light and set about doing a quick sketch of her. I meant to just use…
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fifth day

We had the same model last night as last week. I’m very happy with the portrait I did of him in the long pose. I found his neck very interesting…
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day four

Last night I experimented with new paper. But more importantly, David dropped a casual comment that turned out to be extremely helpful and led me to be able to get…
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watercolors continue

I had an enlightening experience in the third class. I warmed up on crappy sketch paper and then crappy watercolor paper. When it came time for our long pose, I…