136 – Tangent Awareness Day
Every budding artist should observe Tangent Awareness Day! The ability to spot this space killing compositional flaw will improve one’s art immensely…
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117 – For Position Only!
What do you do when faced with a difficult step of a project? Get right in there? Or waffle around a little,…
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116- Step Up, Look Lively!
Art mannequins – we’ve all seen them, and you’ve got to admit, they look a bit wooden. I’ve never thought they were…
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107 – Drawing Too Many Snakes!
I spent quite a bit of time drawing and revising the idea of a snake slide as a feature in my amusement…
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103 – Vortex People
Excited to make my first people for this quilt. Upon starting this project, I challenged myself to improve both drawing skills and…
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68 – The muscle memory of drawing
My husband will repeat a tennis shot over and over to get the correct form into his muscle memory. While I wouldn’t…
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67 – Bottled up meaning
I’m still on the subject of drinking and playing with how it will fit into my grand scheme of a plan for…
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66 – Fangs and functionality
This slide functionally works. It’s size or something isn’t quite right, but good enough for now. I am pleased with the person…
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65 – Ouch!
2 AM: Startled awake with a WTF moment! Last post I claimed to be getting better at recognizing errors with perspective. Yeah,…
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64 – Playing with boxes
WHEN DRAWING IS DIFFICULT, GO BACK TO BOXES! The snake slide that I envision is a tough thing to draw. Not only…
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63 – Making my recycle bin overflow
Man, I can really relate to this quote from Chuck Dixon, “Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the…
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62 – Re-thinking snake oil
Bottle…drinking…downward slide – connects in my mind to: insidious poison, sneaking, slithering, evil snake oil. But, snakes and alcohol are not all…
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61 – Sitting ducks
I don’t want to say directly “shooting at people” but I do want to make this suggestion with a shooting gallery. I’ve…
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60 – Same, but different
I continue to work out how my theme park will look by sketching out slightly different versions. One of my earliest sketches…
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55 – Did you ever play Mousetrap?
Background ideas are formulating. I like the Mousetrap game’s ladder and basket and the diving board person. They kind of just found…
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54 – Beware the whirlpool
The rolling barrel entrance to a funhouse began with my thoughts on getting sucked into the internet, how I’m drawn into a…
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53 – What’s your position on this?
Position alters perspective, even more so when the type of perspective is distorted. Re-locating where an “attraction” is in my theme park…
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52 – Finding your center
A lot of geometry going on here. it will be no easy thing to draw a funhouse entrance barrel convincingly. It is…
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51 – Thoughts on fire
Detail added to the gingerbread house, adding some people and the Food Court signage. One of my biggest fears is fire, so…
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50 – backdrop? More like gumdrop
Planning stage for some other buildings has started. A gingerbread house would be tasty – not only for its colorful appeal, but…
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49 – Taking the paper training wheels off
I’m using a grid behind tracing paper for my drawings now. Newsprint was for quick sketches. Now I want to have a…
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48 – Eye see!
Here’s some crucial info that completely escaped me until lately: People of similar heights standing on flat ground, arranged from closest to…
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46 – Go figure: figure drawing recommendation
This is my go-to for figure drawing reference. The simplified human anatomy, along with details of expression, age, clothing, gender differences are…
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45 – Maybe my biology degree has helped
As I plan the positions and appearances of the structures in my landscape, I need to think about people in the same…
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43 – Where will everything go?
Now that I’ve decided to do a landscape view, and have more of an amusement park look rather than a solitary funhouse,…
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42 – Stranger in a strange land
“Grok” is one of my favorite words. Thanks to Robert A. Heinlein for coining it in his 1961 science fiction novel, “Stranger…
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41 – Using a perspective grid
This perspective grid is what I’ll use for my drawing. There are many kinds of simple grids available for free on the…
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40 – The amazing art of Kim Jung Gi
The South Korean artist named Kim Jung Gi creates absolutely amazing drawings using unusual perspectives. Here’s his website: https://www.kimjunggius.com/pages/about-artist There’s links to videos…
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31 – Drawing the line between scary and fun
Preliminary sketches – imagining how some ideas might fit together. These may not look anything like the final drawing for my quilt,…
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21 – Wavy reflections in fabric
Here’s the sketch for the warped reflections of social media. Love the idea of this. OK, how will I do this with…
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16 – Other pencil-like marks
Another thought on pencils while I’m at it. Woodless graphite sticks can be sharpened like pencils, but all of the graphite is…
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15 – Pencil tribute
The Art Supply Providing the Most Bang for the Buck:the lowly pencil.Not the mundane, yellow #2 bubble-fillers (although those will do in…
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14 – Pictionary scribbles
There aren’t many drawings in my journals. Sometimes I’ll do a pictionary-quick sketch to remind myself about what I was thinking; nothing…
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13 – Feels good to get rolling
Feels good to get rolling on this project…I’ve spent plenty of time on the conceptual part of my next art quilt, which…