Sketchbook Project Preview
For the last several weeks, I’ve been cramming to get my sketchbook done for The Sketchbook Project 2015 deadline. I waited, as per usual, until the last possible moment to […]
Doing It Daily: March 1 – 7
March has been really busy, but my daily drawing continues. I got way behind in adding colour to some of these drawings until yesterday. What a blissful day – me […]
Doing It Daily – February 22 – 28
Almost all my daily sketches from this week were started very late at night, after a long day of drawing for another large project. And most of them are either […]
Doing It Daily – February 15 – 22
This week’s crop of daily sketches were a challenge to complete, because I’m on a deadline for another big drawing project (more on this in later posts). So once again, […]
Doing It Daily – February 8 -14
Doing my daily sketches last week took me in interesting directions – the subjects were so varied. Turns out that I did have to plan a few sketches in advance […]
Doing It Daily – February 1 – 7
A month into my daily drawing and I’m hitting a bit of a wall – the “Wall” being that sometimes the prompt subjects don’t motivate me to draw. And especially […]
Doing It Daily – January 24 – 31
Month #1 of my 365-daily sketching goal achieved! Here are the “publishable” drawings from the last 8 days of January prompts: A quiet moment at home – I was dealing […]
Doing It Daily – January 17 – 23
Still on track for drawing daily! My subjects for last week were: Draw my favourite singer Draw a building you like Draw a selfie Draw a glass of wine Draw […]
Doing It Daily – January 10 – 16
Last week’s daily drawings were a little more involved, because it doesn’t take much for me to go to “Detail Town”. January 12 – Favourite Breakfast Spot: January 14 – Something […]
The Road Ahead
One of our contributors, Deb Milimaka-Miles just celebrated her birthday and has also just embarked on a new exploration of oil painting (hopefully we’ll see her new work posted here […]
Doing It Daily – January 2 – 9
I’m still managing to keep my commitment to draw every day (in addition to any course assignments), using my list of drawing prompts. I’ve also committed to not doing a […]
Preparation or Just Going For It
In Liz Steel’s wonderful “Sketching Now” course, we are exploring the approaches of drawing “tightly” and “loosely”. When doing a tighter drawing, slowing down is essential, and doing some foundational […]
