In the Fall of 2005 I took an oil painting class. I had seen an advertisement posted in Hobby Lobby. The ad gave the name and phone number of an instructor that taught the painting techniques of the “old masters”. Old Masters? Wow. I signed up. I would never have guessed […]
Creative Projects
Sea Shell Finale!
There have been many sea shell drawings around my house lately, and they haven’t all been done by me. My sea shell tag art has inspired my 7 year old and she has been sketching away. This is just one more thing I love about starting this blog. It […]
Sea Shell Tag #12 –the end.
Drawing these shells has been good practice. Yes, it would’ve been so much easier to buy a unmounted sheet of shell stamps somewhere, but again, the goal was drawing practice. So here is #12- A ‘skillets macron’ shell, to be exact.
Graduation ’09
Last night I attended a homeschool graduation ceremony for the first time. We were invited to see a good friend of mine’s son graduate, along with two others. I had been prayerfully working […]
Happy Birthday, Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt is one of my all time favorite artists, both in style and subject matter. Since I recently posted my pen and ink rendition of “The Bath” I had to flip through some of my other drawings and see if I had anything else I could post for her birthday. […]
Sea Shell Tag #10
I drew the giant conch by hand with a hard graphite pencil and then used Prismacolors pencils for color.
Sea Shell Tag #9
Drawing from Wedding Magazines
Time to take a break from my camera and get back to some drawing. As frustrating as editing photos can be, it’s nothing compared to the challenges of drawing by hand. There are so many things I would love to draw, but the task would be so time consuming I […]
Sea Shell Tag #6