Urban Sketching Excursions
One of the wonderful things about spring is being able to get back outside with a sketchbook and pen… and not becoming an instant ice cube. It’s still a bit […]
Shipped That Sketchbook!
Whew! It was a mad dash to get my sketchbook done and mailed for the March 31st deadline of The Sketchbook Project. As ready as I was to get this […]
What Are You Listening To When You Create?
Since I’ve been working on the Sketchbook Project for long stretches of time, I’ve been experimenting with listening to all kinds of media. Movies in the background have not been […]
Doing It Daily: March 8 – 14
Bought a new pen, and tried it out on several of this week’s drawings. The pen is a Platinum Desk Pen, extra fine nib. I saw this pen while taking […]
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 […]
3-Point Watercolour
In our watercolour class, we were challenged to paint a subject where there were 3 obvious points of perspective – 2 sides and the third being either from below or […]
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, […]
My First (Finished) Negative Painting
Last year, I attempted a negative painting (painting the negative space around subjects in layers) but abandoned it because it hurt my brain, being so against my usual way of painting. And […]
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 […]
Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan 