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Say what??

In drawing lessons, sometimes it is difficult to articulate my thoughts. A picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes a thousand words still can’t explain the picture. Often, I can’t find the right word, so I will make one up. The funny part is that my students understand the meaning!

This morning a woman was working on some boulders but something wasn’t looking believable. The problem was that she had inadvertantly made potatoes and an oversized pinto bean! Once we had that figured out, she asked how to draw some grass behind the boulders. I was trying to keep her from making a lot of little lines all in a perfect row. The instructions came out, “You need to sort of bounce your clumpage along – that’s it, just horizontalize it a bit more”. She got it.

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No potatoes allowed in my river!! The title of the piece is “Spring Run-off” and it is one of the few pieces I can’t bear to part with.

2 Comments

  1. thanks, Sophie! It is about 5×7, framed up to 8×10, and it is colored pencil. Someday, it may become an oil painting. And the subject’s name shall remain anonymous, for purposes of the blog. Good guess, though!

  2. Great pic, Jana! Is that one of Phoebe~~? What is the size? Keep up the getting better and better work!


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