I have a very dear friend who is in college. She is a “Resident Assistant” this year, which is sort of like a camp counselor for a dorm full of freshmen girls. “Freshgirls”? “Freshwomen”? Hmmm. . . One of her duties is to make some sort of name plates for each dorm room door. When […]
Another Secret Oil Painting Workshop
There are benefits to taking drawing lessons from me. One of them is that I offer an occasional oil painting workshop to my drawing students. (There are a lot of links in this post. So many things reminded me of past posts. If you click on any of them, they will open in a new […]
You Can Do THIS With Colored Pencils?
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Learning to Oil Paint
Remember in the olden days when I was an oil painter? This was before 2013, the year I drew 180 pencil drawings of Wilsonia cabins. A number of my drawing students have been pressuring me to teach oil painting. We know one another fairly well so they understand how I teach, and I understand how […]
Last Chance to See Wendy’s Awesome Pencil Drawings
Now there’s a title and a half! Remember my amazing and very advanced drawing student, Wendy Miller? Her show ends this coming weekend. The last day to view it at the Courthouse Gallery (at 125 South B Street in Exeter) will be September 29, 2013. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. […]
A Friend’s First Art Show
One of my drawing students is so good that I asked The Courthouse Gallery in Exeter ( where I teach drawing lessons) to feature her in an upcoming show. I’m defining “so good” based on several things: Her work is technically excellent. She composes her drawings from her own photos (and occasionally from mine), carefully […]