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I was looking at YouTube - trying to find video on how to draw trees -=problem is they on show how to draw individual trees or groves where the trees are spread out - I want to learn ho to draw lots of trees - thick or dense forest. I want to draw them in pencil . any Ideas
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One of the best conversations I’ve had about art wasn’t with an artist. It wasn’t with an art historian, curator, or gallery owner, either. It was with a mechanical engineer. We went from discussing his latest design project to the artfulness of historical blueprints to Leonardo’s...
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Courtney Jordan
on 12 May 2013
Filed under: How To Paint, acrylic painting, sketching, Oil Painting, Drawing Basics, Art, colored pencil
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Discovering David Ligare's work was a great gift. Adept in every genre, he is master of composition, light, and color. With a classical sensibility and an ardent love of antique Greek and Roman culture, he is simply brilliant, and his work is beyond gorgeous. (One of his landscapes is on the cover...
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Happy Birthday Dear Aubrey.... from Grandma..
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I don't think the failure or success of a drawing has to do with the drawing ideas that the artist starts with. He or she could choose pretty much anything and make a go of it, don't you think? It also doesn't depend on whether the artist chooses to create easy drawings or ones that are more...
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Hello everybody, this is my "Last Supper". The original is "In remembrance of me" by Walter Rane, all credits to him. I'm sorry for the bad quality of the image. This is a liitle frustrating :'( Is color pencils and pastels on "Romaní" paper (this is how we...
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I'll admit that in the past I have been guilty of thinking of colored pencil art as colorful and bright and not necessarily able to be coupled with serious subjects or moody narratives. But that was my own bias. As I've spent time looking at sketchbooks of draftsmen creating colored pencil art...
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Courtney Jordan
on 3 Feb 2013
Filed under: Drawing, how to draw, figure drawing, pencil drawing, sketching, How to Draw People, Drawing Basics, Art, colored pencil
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I love stumbling upon facts about artists that make me rediscover them and consider their process in a whole new light. That's the kind of moment I had when I discovered that Roy Lichtenstein, the king of Benday dots and comic-book narratives, loved sketching. He started almost every day drawing...
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Years ago I had a pencil sharpener in classroom studio that removed wood only leaving the lead or color It was manual and look like the old wall sharpener I was looking for one now that we are doing color pencil class this spring I have seen a "grapshap" for manual use but would like to find...
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Here is my picture of the horses. This is my 2nd cp picture that I have ever done. It has some issues but I am fairly pleased with it I have been asked if I would put it in the up coming auction at the Southern Indiana Arts Center at their annual fund raiser. I told them yes now I will have to frame...
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Hi there! I'm new to this site, and I wanted to ask around for ideas in the drawing field. I am a senior in art school, and I have to have a senior exhibition. I have a couple of ideas such as: - Self portrait challenge: #1 With Props, #2 Experimenting with Light, #3 Mood - Identity: Close-up of...
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This is #10 of a series of quick sketches. I am trying to complete 75 sketches in 75 days. This plant is one that I have sitting on my desk in my office/art studio the window that faces east. I love the soft, fuzzy leaves and the beautiful violet flower petals. They make me smile every time I walk into...
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lgrawl123
on 2 Sep 2011
Filed under: Colored Pencil, #10, African Violet, Sketch-Laurie Grawl
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This is #10 of a series of quick sketches. I am trying to complete 75 sketches in 75 days. This plant is one that I have sitting on my desk in my office/art studio the window that faces east. I love the soft, fuzzy leaves and the beautiful violet flower petals. They make me smile every time I walk into...
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lgrawl123
on 2 Sep 2011
Filed under: Colored Pencil, #10, African Violet, Sketch-Laurie Grawl
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This is #10 of a series of quick sketches. I am trying to complete 75 sketches in 75 days. This plant is one that I have sitting on my desk in my office/art studio the window that faces east. I love the soft, fuzzy leaves and the beautiful violet flower petals. They make me smile every time I walk into...
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lgrawl123
on 2 Sep 2011
Filed under: Colored Pencil, #10, African Violet, Sketch-Laurie Grawl
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This is a work on colored pastel paper done with colored pencils. It measures 9"x10" ---- The color of the original is brighter as there is a glare in the photo!