Month: January 2019

  • Class 3

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    Yikes this week was hard.  I should have taken pictures during the week and there wasn’t and still isn’t much to look at since it is just a line drawing at this point.   The original plumb line and horizontal were easy.  We used a level to find those.  The angle of the face though,…

  • Almost There

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    I’m so close.  I’m so close I’ve actually signed the paintings.  I still can’t let them go.  There was something about the third painting that just wasn’t quite right yet, and I didn’t know what it was. This month, my focus, in general, has been on asking the right questions.  It’s easy to ask something…

  • Class 2 Part 2

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    Here is where I ended up, I ran out of time.       I may come back to finish it later. I’m still working on softer and lighter lines.  Here’s a quote from the textbook, Lessons in Classical Drawing, by Juliette Aristides that says it all: “One of the most immediate things beginners can…

  • Kipaipai -Class 2 Part 1

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    Week 2 of Kipaipai Atelier Drawing Class — Part 1: I’m already much better at discerning differences. I still need to work on my grey scale. I could easily spend all my time drawing, I’m falling in love with it all over again. Rose started us with blocking in tonal shapes, not letting us use…

  • Back to School at Kipaipai

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    I finally found a classical atelier where I could take classes here on the Big Island, and classes began this month. I have permission from my teacher, Rose Adare, to post my insights from our classes here to my blog. As you may know, I’m almost completely self-taught, since I didn’t have any interest in…