7-16-22 I am trying to work larger on the page with this. Seems like I start bigger usually and then things shrink down as I get more accurate with the forms. So I tend to work with small compartments of the page. Here I tried to start large and stay large. Some success I guess. … Read more
I managed to make it to a figure drawing session on 5/26/22 at Art Works in Eagan. I guess I wasn’t completely disappointed with my work when I looked at it the next day. We usually start off with ten poses at one minute each for gesture drawings, these are mostly charcoal and soft pencil … Read more
5/20/2022 Over the past few years I have been trying to spend at least a little time every day doing some sketching. Sometimes they can be rather refined sketches and sometimes very rough. For some reason I feel that I want to work at getting better at this craft. I probably spend 20 to 60 … Read more
This is a door project I have been working on. It is basically a frame and raised panel door made of Alder. I made several sketches before I started , this is what we settled on: At this point the hard part is to be patient and not rush it. It needs to take the … Read more
Here are my pages from the figure drawing session at Art Works in Eagan on January 25th 2021. Again, I am not drawing masks so just making some generalization of a face…
Here are my sketchbook pages from the first figure drawing session of the year, last Saturday the 16 of January 2021 at Art Works in Eagan. I just brought a simple sketch book and an ink pen with water soluble ink and a water brush to push it around a little bit. I tried to … Read more
Here are some of my better sketches and I will also put them on the sketchbooks page on the website, (a page that has been neglected lately). Some of these I think actually turned out OK. I am happy with the volume of sketching I accomplished over the last 365 days or so. Still not … Read more
It takes me a while to do these larger pieces. This one I probably started over a year ago. It is a pencil drawing on a piece of Masonite with many coats of gesso sanded smooth. The drawing measures 18″ high by 24″ wide. Like always, I am not sure if I accomplished anything of … Read more
About a week ago I became a Grandfather. October 23rd, 2020 at 7:45am Colorado time to be exact. I don’t mean to make it sound like a personal accomplishment, it was mostly my daughter and her husbands doing. But I like to think I had some hand in the process, at least from a historical … Read more
