This is a completed drawing of a Wilsonia cabin. I couldn’t decide if this post belonged here on my normal blog, or if it belongs on The Cabins of Wilsonia. The drawing won’t be in the book. Those pages are already designed, and this cabin has its front door represented in the chapter of Park […]
A Good Challenge (Or a Crazy-Hard Pencil Commission)
A wise colored pencil artist taught me to NEVER draw a face smaller than an egg. I’ve passed that on to my drawing students. It is tricky enough to capture a likeness correctly with photos or people that you can actually see and measure. Try doing it when you can’t see the details. Worse, try […]
What Is The California Artist Doing?
Perhaps you’ve been wondering if I am still a California artist. Cruising to Alaska, having fun in Mineral King; is this chick even working any more?? I am working diligently on The Cabins of Wilsonia. You can follow the progress on my other blog, called The Cabins of Wilsonia. (Sometimes my own cleverness just slays me.) […]
Commissioned Pencil Drawing, Completed
Being able to draw scenes like this is one of the main reasons I am a California artist in Tulare County. Don’t you just want to live here? Forget it – we have high unemployment, bad air, and lots of fat people. There. A one-woman population control committee. That’s me!
Decisions, Decisions
The commissioned pencil drawing presented several challenges. When a place is really beautiful, visually captivating, unusually interesting, my oh my it is difficult to choose the right view! I didn’t intend to draw this view but thought it made a nice photo. The door by which one enters a building is considered the “face” and […]
Commissioned Pencil Drawing Coming Up
I’m drawing my brains out, working on The Cabins of Wilsonia. (Okay, I’m not really drawing my brains out – I need them for stuff like posting to my blog. Try not to take me too literally here.) When I get commissions, I take a break from that Giant Project. There is a house here in […]
New Plan for a New Year
2013 brings a new focus to my professional life as a California artist, a “regionalist from Quaintsville”. I’ve told you about the book I am drawing, writing and publishing – The Cabins of Wilsonia. You’ve seen drawings as they are completed and read my groanings as I wonder how I will ever finish the project. Now, […]
Told You Yesterday That I Was Inspired
Yesterday I ended my post about inspirational beach photos by saying I felt so inspired I would go draw a cabin. You thought I was making that up? This is a commissioned pencil drawing of a Wilsonia cabin. The cabin owners emailed me several photos with some specific instructions, and this is the result. I […]
Product or Process
In knitting, there are regular discussions about whether one is a product knitter or a process knitter. This is in reference to one’s motivation – is it the journey that you enjoy, or is it the destination? When it comes to drawing, I am both a process and a product artist. The pencil feels like […]
Is The Fat Lady Singing?
Not yet. Looks finished. It isn’t. It will stay in the studio for awhile so I can evaluate it, refine it, spend some time adding a few more layers, emphasizing the contrast, darkening the darks, and finally, taking a decent photo.