On a recent hot day, as I was preparing to go down the hill to teach drawing lessons, the gallery curator texted me to say the A/C wasn’t working. So, I immediately texted (almost) all my students* and cancelled. We had some chitchat, and one of my most motivated students said she had started a […]
Using Tech with a Pencil Drawing
When one of my drawing students or I finish a drawing, we often like to get it reproduced as prints, notecards, for a business card or a brochure, in a portfolio of work. . . so many potential uses! Back in the olden days, pencil was very difficult to reproduce either on a copy machine […]
Beginning drawing workshop at a “new” place
Stem & Stone, a neat little shop in Three Rivers, sponsored a beginning drawing workshop. Their store is too small to accommodate a big table with people around it, so we used the Bequette House at the Three Rivers Historical Museum. I love old buildings, with all sorts of architectural details lacking in modern structures. […]
More About Drawing Lessons
It is said that the best way to learn something is by teaching it to someone else. Hard to do that if you don’t understand the process yourself. Because my students get to know one another in group lessons, they often help each other. This thrills me, because I eavesdrop and get to witness that […]
A Peek into Drawing Lessons
Since 1994, I’ve been teaching people how to draw. Private lessons, group lessons with individualized help, and workshops. My drawing students are wonderful people, and I am so proud of them! We don’t meet in December, so students try to get their work finished by the end of November. Some do, some don’t. Some need […]
Drawing with Pencils
I guess you could draw with chalk or a paintbrush or your finger on a fogged up window, but drawing with pencils is what I do. Student work It’s also what I teach. A returning drawing student had one month free for lessons before embarking on a new chapter of life. We dove right in, […]
Drawing Workshop
Upcoming! Besides loving to draw, it makes me happy to help other people learn to draw. A friend named Anne Brown has been asking me for many years to give a workshop up here, and since she offered to host it and for whatever reason I now have some time, (OH, because I’m not preparing […]
A Little Help From My Friend
It is important that we are kind and complimentary to one another in drawing lessons. It is equally important that we are honest. AH is my friend and also one of my drawing students. Since she owns dogs, she saw something a little wrong in my drawing on the dog with the black head. I […]
Drawing With a Friend
A long time drawing student who has become a friend hit a metaphorical speed-bump in life. Her body has betrayed her; one of the symptoms is weakness and a tremor in her dominant hand. We’re not going to talk about diagnosis or the emotional wallop, only about our time together drawing. She is without a […]
The Hour of My Usefulness
Last night was my presentation “How To Draw” at CACHE, the gallery and museum in Exeter. This was more of a talk than a demo, about a subject upon which I could bloviate for hours. Alas, it was just one hour, 6:30-7:30, because I know people’s attention spans are limited. Besides, I was missing dinner. […]