If my drawing students learn to draw with graphite pencils – i.e. see proportions, understand values (the darks and lights), understand hard and soft edges, and make the tools do what they intend for them to do, then my drawing students who want to can use colored pencils. Colored pencils (mis)behave differently than graphite pencils. […]
Invitation to Visit Wilsonia Blog
Did you know that I have another blog? “Cabin on a Sunlit Meadow” – sold Yeppers. It is called The Cabins of Wilsonia. For almost three years I’ve been working on a book of pencil drawings of the cabin community Wilsonia at Grant Grove in Kings Canyon National Park. The process is documented here. If […]
Beautiful Pencil Drawing
Every Tuesday I teach people how to draw at the Courthouse Gallery in Exeter. Been doing it for 20 years or so. You can learn about it here. Drawing Lessons My drawing students are wonderful. They work hard, and they learn and they do beautiful drawings. This beautiful woman drew her beautiful granddaughter. It is […]
Drawing Sequoia
Sequoia Natural History Association has sold my work for many years. Great organization – they stock and man the visitor centers and ranger stations throughout Sequoia. They do a lot more, but this post isn’t about them. It is about a drawing I am working on in hopes that they will add it to their […]
Drawing in Pencil
I’m drawing in pencil because I love to. There might be a purpose to these drawings in progress, and it might be to keep from doing repetitive and boring work on the computer for the upcoming book The Cabins of Wilsonia. The book isn’t repetitive and boring; the computer work is both of those things plus IMPOSSIBLE. […]
Wonderful Drawing Students in My Life
For twenty years I’ve taught people how to draw. This happens on Tuesday afternoons at the Courthouse Gallery in Exeter. During the Studio Tour on the weekend, a former drawing student named Kelly came by. She still draws and paints and has a job as a receptionist for a chiropractic office. She sells some of […]
Building Bridges In Drawing Lessons
For the past 20 years I’ve been teaching people how to draw. One hour per week, 4 people at a time, each working on her own project (and sometimes his), $55/month – drawing lessons! Here is the link if you want to learn more: Drawing Lessons. Everyone learns in a different way and at a […]
Turning Away Work
Really? Turn away work? Who would do that? Me, that’s who. Why? Because I know my limitations. The story: An acquaintance called me to take a look at an old photo of a pilot posing on the wing of his aircraft in the 1940s. It was an 8×10 black and white photo, the man was […]
Drawing Because I Love To Draw
After spending an entire year completely focused on completing one drawing after another after another after another until 268 drawings were completed. . . What was I saying? All those after anothers got me lost. I love to draw. It has been a long time since I drew simply because there was a picture I […]
Amazing Work from my Drawing Students
This year marks the completion of 20 years of teaching people how to draw. Or, perhaps it marks the beginning of year #21. Numbers aren’t my strongest subject. When I started, I didn’t know how to teach. I just bumbled, fumbled and mumbled. If someone wanted to draw, say, a lion, I’d procrastinate on the […]