As much as I liked traditional atelier instruction like at the Gage Academy, I’ve really wanted to get more experience drawing imaginatively and using drawing to tell stories. One great exercise we had to…
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Here’s a final project from my 3D design class. We had to create a balancing sculpture and I balanced a mama barn swallow made out of sculpey clay on a…
As a prompt for creativity, my teacher had an assignment based on the word game Balderdash. She assigned everyone an obscure word where we were to come up with different…
I’m looking forward to sculpting this tomorrow – we’re supposed to take a myth and create a container based on it. This was my favorite idea for the Tibetan story…
My teacher in Mastering the Pencil this quarter is children’s book illustrator Karen Windness. We had a fun assignment this past week creating a veggie or fruit circus using the…
I finished my watercolor portrait workshop with Hamid at Gage Academy this past week, but I still wanted to learn more, so I checked out Scott Waddell‘s Art of the Painting video. It’s great!…
One spot left for what will be an amazing Watercolor workshop with Omar Rayyan in Bothell. Learn more HERE.
James Gurney has a great blog, Gurney Journey with great resources for how he learns to paint imaginary characters with life-like weighting, color, and balance. He uses references photos extensively to…
I’m on break for another week and have had the chance to experiment with gouache. Gouache is an opaque watercolor paint. I’m finding it to be a more natural medium…
Here’s a digital illustration version of Basilton. Basilton’s back story is that he is Chief Inspector from Somerset in England. A resident of the bat colony of Somerset, he was promoted…
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