I want to display the essence of the bow hand in the simplest way. However, this sketch is more detailed than the caricatures I have been sketching lately. In getting back to learning the violin again, I remember the deliberate grip and delicate balance a violinist must employ to control the sound that comes out […]
Ten years later and I’m still sticking to my story.
The thing about quarantine is, one runs out of things to do. I’ve run out of subjects, so I am concentrating on self portraiture. This one needs a bit of improvement. I hope that you, dear readers, bear with me while I improve my skills. I’ll try to keep things interesting.
I improved a bit with today’s self portrait. I augmented the pencil sketch with inked lines for shading and definition of edges.
I tried to schedule my last ‘No Power’ post, but it went right out. I hope I can share with you this watercolor practice wash that I did today.
I divided my 12×9 watercolor block into four sections. I need a lot of practice representing clouds in watercolor. Instead of painting a generic cloud, I used one of my photographs (previous practice sessions are here: Gray Clouds in Front of Cloud Line…; and here: Watercolor Cloud Studies – First Trial.) Future practice sessions will […]
While the sketchbook is a place for practice, I devote most pages to portraits. Faces are an important aspect of portraits, but there are factors: gesture; posture; placement and surroundings, to name a few. The sketch below is face-drawing practice.
