I’m still drawing faces – but most often in my sketchbook rather than on 3×5 index cards. some come from imagination and some from the…
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Creative Wisdom/Faces on Friday: doing the work
April 20, 2012I’ve been thinking about my favorite subject again. Why is it that people are afraid of drawing? I say this almost every time I open my mouth in…
I don’t think I’ll ever be quite done learning to draw faces. I can see that I’ve come a long way from a year ago. I…
I just got back from a long vacation with the family. I’m going to show you pictures soon whether you want to see them or not….…
Most of these are drawn from looking at pictures on my monitor – a couple of them I even traced after getting annoyed that I couldn’t…
I’m excited again about drawing faces. from a photo – freehand from a photo- freehand Remember way back when with my “how to draw a face”…
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Artspark Winter Tutorial Day 3 (and faces on friday)
November 11, 2011Today is DAY 3 of ARTSPARK’s Winter Tutorial Blog Hop Tracie Lyn Huskamp is offering instructions (and a kit) on how to create this lovely little…
January Faces At the beginning of this year I decided it was time to stop whining about how hard it was to draw people. Faces especially.…
Eureka! The top row, left – looks like my husband!!!! So I’m getting to the point where if I take more than 60 seconds to do…
Hmm. I still have thing with the lower half of the face being too short. Something to work on.…
Surprise! I actually got these posted on time. And thought I’d share some of the sketches from a Life Drawing session I attended two weeks ago…
I think I need to take time and work on a few faces this week instead of scribbling them down super fast. I’m feeling like I’m…
I’ll bet it’s happened to you before. faces sketched during a graduation ceremony You make a goal, do really well for a while, then things get crazy…
Daughter of a friend – with the most soulful eyes Two weeks ago (I’m slipping) Sketchbook Faces – from life Sketchbook faces – from imagination Sketchbook…
I could only see the right half of her face He turned away after one minute or so I didn’t do any of the 3×5 quick…
Beautiful fossils from the Natural History Museum Yesterday was a making lemonade out of lemons day. I had a 7yr old trooper who carried a zip-loc…
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Faces on Friday and Creative Students!
April 15, 2011I spent time this week with the Peninsula Piecemakers Quilt Guild. These pictures were taken during our class “The Elements of Art.” After a long day of play…
The first three are all drawings of my beloved Mr. Almost Perfect. The second looks closes to him – I worked and reworked his nose and…
Most of these are done very quickly (30-60 seconds) except the two girls in the middle bottom. It’s getting better – the girls look like themselves.…
At another guild meeting and each drawn in less than 30 seconds. My sisters are coming for a visit in June. We’re going to have a…
What an interesting journey this is – drawing a face each day. I can see some real improvement. at a concertI think this is my best…
The good, the bad, and the ugly. Not the people of course – just my skilz. I found out that if you have lotion on your…
My four year old still doesn’t want to hold still or stop making faces. No surprise there – and I wouldn’t have it any other way.…
I see progress. I’m starting to be able to see where my mistakes are.…
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Faces on Friday: Figure Study
February 18, 2011Sincerest apologies to my friends, who hopefully can’t recognize themselves because the drawings don’t look anything like them anyway. No – you really don’t look like…
At a meeting. At the airport. From an ad for Lion King while on the plane. At a quilt guild. Sorry ladies – these don’t look…
Very quick sketches while she’s reading At a guild meeting The middle one is getting closer So – the last one up there – how do…
Staring myself in the face late at night. My kids recognized the one on the left. PROGRESS! I need to figure out how to do noses…
Week Two of my 365 Faces 2011 goal I wonder how long it will take before my drawings look like the person I’m drawing? Above and…
And so it begins. Installment #1 of my determination to draw a face every day. I’ve decided to draw each face on the back of…