My friend G is building a pool or pond or something for some people in Three Rivers. He has a vision of a corrugated metal wall with the shape of the mountains cut at the top of the wall. He said the wall would be about 8 feet, and asked if I could draw the […]
Art from Hume Lake
The first time I drew a Hume Lake cabin, it was for my friend’s parents. Her mom commissioned a pencil drawing. Wait, not true. The first time I drew a Hume Lake cabin, it was the boys staff cabin across the street from the girls staff cabin, in 1978. It was a present for my […]
Very Large, Very Detailed Pencil Drawing
Yeppers, still working on and talking about Reimer’s Candies and Gifts. I was stuck due to a lack of visual information, considering resorting to some hoodwinkery and bamboozlement. Instead, I stopped by one morning, climbed up some rocks and took several photos, this one being the most useful. Alrighty, then, let’s git-‘er-dun! There was a […]
Needing a Master’s Degree…
…or perhaps a PhD. The topic? Trickinology. Visual trickinology. I’m drawing Reimers Candies and Gifts from a straight-on view, something that isn’t really possible to see in real life. Well, maybe it is, but it would take a wide-angle lens, and the resultant drawing would be an entirely unwieldy shape for reproducing as cards. Here […]
More Quarter-Inching
This might put you to sleep. It almost did me, in combination with getting up at 5:30 AM, 103°, and the droning hum of the barely adequate AC. Can you even tell the difference from the first photo to the second one? Prolly not because my T-square was over the unfinished lower rocks of the […]
Iconic Business Drawing, Quarter-Inching Along
An old friend used to stop by my studio at my first public location in Exeter, just to spend time together chatting, and to offer encouragement. He often said (in admiration, I think), “How do you do that??” I always answered, “One quarter inch at a time.” Oooo-weee, this is S L O W. But […]
Made the Deadline With Time to Spare
Moving left to right, top to bottom, identifying words whited out, dark photo taken with phone at the end of a day of drawing as the light was getting low. Still working top to bottom, left to right. Almost finished, except what should be done about the lower sections of nothingness? How about some lupine? […]
Fast or Good?
My drawing students are used to me telling them, “You can be fast or you can be good; I get to be both.” The braggadocio recently got tested. Someone had an art emergency, and gave me about 5 drawing days to complete a commissioned pencil drawing. There were more calendar days than just five, but […]
August is my Worst Favorite Month
My longest running drawing student Mae borrowed a photo of this cabin from me and drew it when she was brand new to drawing (but experienced at watercolor painting). She put in in an art show where local history buff and old friend Alan George insisted that it had been drawn by me, despite her […]
Iconic Three Rivers Business Drawing Inching forward
No time for jibber-jabber. There’s a big drawing that needs a ton of time! So much measuring.* Oooh, those tiny letters. See you tomorrow. *OF COURSE I MEASURE! If it took tools to build it, it takes tools to draw it.