1adminjohnhuisman Going through the sketch books again and thinking about what I drew and why. I am mostly just playing around trying to get my pen to flow with my eyes and what I am seeing. Anyway I uploaded a few… I have lots, I will have to try to post them more consistently.
I spent a couple hours one day last week hanging a dozen of my pieces at the cafe at the Landmark Center in St. Paul. I took a few pictures as I was finishing up. These will be on display there through the month of September and August. Landmark Center Cafe Hours: Monday – Friday … Read more
This is a painting I did from another photograph from one of my sons. I find it a powerful idea that depicts a brief time in my life when baseball was what we did. Remnants of brief periods in a life watching four young people grow from new born to adult. I decided … Read more
I decided I would post a couple partial pages from my session at Art Works Eagan’s figure drawing session this past Saturday. This is a tremendous opportunity for those of us “south of the river” as they say, to spend some time drawing from real life models. The first page here started with a few … Read more
I have been lucky enough to spend a great deal of my adult life working on and around Burntside Lake near Ely Minnesota. I have seen many slow spring meltings of the last of the stubborn ice and the slow closing up again in the late fall of a lake that refuses to thaw or … Read more
Maybe it’s normal to start thinking about things like beaches this time of year, especially in a year like this where winter doesn’t seem to want to give up. But that probably has nothing to do with this. For some reason I just found myself working out some sketches of a child on the beach… … Read more
Last Thanksgiving weekend, (Thanksgiving of 2017), my wife and I made a trip to southern Louisiana to do a final cleaning out of her fathers house before the closing of the sale. We flew down to New Orleans, rented a car and drove to Houma. We had arranged for a Penske truck rental for the … Read more
A blog post from the Concepts website: Carved loon http://huismanconcepts.com/a-custom-cedar-entry-door-carved-loon/
This was an experiment, (they are all experiments), based on a photo taken by one of my sons of a young man who attended the same college. When I first saw the photo I don’t remember thinking there was anything particularly interesting but something kept drawing me back to it and, as sometimes happens, I … Read more
A couple pieces that I have currently hanging at the Eagan Community Center for the Eagan Art House show, “Zoom In” that runs through April, (I think). I stopped by there the other day to see them and snapped a few shots of the walls. ____________ ____________________ HuismanConcepts.com