By November 1st snow and cooler temperatures slowed down the rate of staining on the tree cloths. In the darkness under the Cedar tree its cloth stayed wet and had decayed more rapidly than the others. By November the Cedar tree cloth was in a fragile state. over the summer and fall I had continued […]
Read More...Here are some more of the portraits and flower drawings my Mark Making With Machine students did last week.Each drawing is full of character -both the sitter and the sewer’s personality comes through the quality of the marks made.
Read More...At the beginning of my Mark Making with Machine course a number of students said wanted to learn how to draw with their machines. Last lesson we spent the afternoon drawing. First they traced a flower to get the feel for making a line. Next they made several drawings of the flower they each brought […]
Read More...Once I had dried the cloth and sealed it with a workable fixative, I pinned it to a frame and waited for a windy day. When the wind came I raced outside with a bottle of brown ink and tried dipping Douglas-fir needles then holding up the framed cloth for the inked needles to draw […]
Read More...One of the trees I have been working with is the Western Red Cedar. I found this burnt stump…… … and rubbed my sketchbook over it. The tree has wonderfully suggestive textural bark. The drawing the cedar did on a breezy day.
Read More...This semester with my BA (Hons) studies I am taking the Personal Specialism module, which is all about learning how to write a proposal for an art project, 2 of them actually and to show how the art work would change to suit the different sites. My first proposal is for my work to be […]
Read More...I just received this yummy book in the mail & I have already spent several hours dipping into it. Nancy Bradfield obviously loves costume because it shows in the inspiring, detailed drawings she has made of the outside & inside of hundreds of garments & accessories. Most of them have never been seen by the […]
Read More...We drove up to Edmonton for Thanksgiving with family. While there we took in Gunther von Hagen’s Bodyworlds exhibition, http://www.bodyworlds.com/ . Over the last weekend the Science Centre was open 24/7 to cope with the crowd of people wanting to see it. Along with the many other procrastinators we lined up and filed in at 10:45 […]
Read More...The Opus BA module I am doing this semester is Visual Studies where the whole focus is on drawing the human form. We are advised to take a figure drawing class which I did for an intensive week at Red Deer Collage during Series. It is also recommended we study a real human skeleton. I […]
Read More...This summer I am working on the Visual Studies module of the Opus BA(Hons) programme I am enrolled in. It is highly recommened one takes a figure drawing class. My drawing skills are poorly developed, to say the least, so I attended a 5 day long open drawing studio session at Red Deer College’s summer […]
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