Month: November 2024
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little crystal island with a little wizard
watercolour and fountain pen, in my sketchbook. I’ve been drawing modern wizards for my wizard puberty zine and what if they hung out on crystals islands.
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oil pastel mini portrait study
Browsed through Earth’s World for some great natural light portraits to practice with. This was made in a new little 5 x 7ish sketchbook I picked up that’s filled with recycled cotton rag paper. I’d been noticing that rag papers have taken my softest oil pastels the best – you can see one pushed to…
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while i am gardening this website i realize the weeding process is maybe invisible
As I edit posts for spelling and grammar and tagging and layout and all these little invisible things I do to try and learn how to wrangle my website and all its content, I realize that a) this seems to kick them back into RSS “unread” status, which must be annoying..? and b) most folks…
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Gouache hawk study
got the gouache out again for the first time in months; arm recovery really took the fun out of it for me for a while there! but I’m feeling more myself when it comes to holding the brush again, and it was lovely to sit and do a study of the hawk I watched kill…
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Oil pastel study of a magnetar car
Did this study from a photo I took during the pandemic of a delightful vehicle we occasionally saw in our old neighbourhood. A magnetar is a very, very cool and scary space phenomenon and I extremely respect naming your ancient honda accord after it. A couple process shots to show you the underdrawing I did…
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Oil pastel robin
I’ve been doing studies in the Robert Bateman brand sketchbooks, which are a pretty smooth vellum surface; the oil pastel slides around wildly on them but gosh it’s fun! This drawing is maybe 7 x 7″ or so in size. Reffed my own photo. Again I did an underdrawing with the cray-pas expressionist oil pastels…
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Inspiring photographer: Em Sharnoff
With the death of cohost, I have tried to make sure to catch my favourite cohost photography folks’ new rss feeds as best I can! And seems worthwhile to share these links with you – if you find something in my photos I bet you’ll see something worthwhile in the photos that make me drop…