Paper and Threads: Paper Archives Paper and Threads Main « Page 288 of 327 » August 26, 2007 London Terrace House I finally painted our "2006-2007 London Home" at 25 Royal Ave, Chelsea. We were so fortunate to have 6 wonderful trips to visit our daughter, her husband, and 2 children and even were there when their 3rd baby was born prematurely in December. We spent a total of 3 months visiting - approximately 2 weeks every 2 months - except when we rushed over one week early in December for the baby for a total of 3 weeks. They have moved back to New York and we don't know who is living in this lovely home now. We will always have wonderful memories from the time we spent there. This was painted on Fabriano 9 X 12" 140 lb extra white HP paper. It was the first time that I used it and I love it! Posted by Shirley at 7:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (13) August 25, 2007 More Figure Drawing Practice One of my Art Goals for 2007 is to practice drawing people - real people, photos of people, photos of nude models, and Greek-Roman statues. Here are a few sketches from August. This sketch was made from a photo in a pregnancy magazine that is distributed at the medical school. There are great photos of babies and pregnant women in the advertisements! These two folks were sitting separately reading at the Cafe at the Toy Boat Pond in Central Park. I loved her hat and then needed to find a suitable male wearing a hat for balance! This was sketched from a photo in my Nude Models for Artists book. Although the graphite smudging doesn't show up on the watercolor paper, it really does in the scan. This is one of the liabilities of being left-handed for sure. A sketch from the Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I went on my own Sketchcrawl today and did 3 projects that I planned for my next museum visit. The New York group was meeting at South Street Seaport for their Worldwide Sketchcrawl - and it is a hot, humid day. The Museum. in contrast, was beautifully cooled.... Ah, I'm getting old and fussy! Posted by Shirley at 3:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (7) August 24, 2007 EDM Challenges #132 (Chain) and 133 (Peach) We had to disconnect our scanner to have a window air conditioner fixed and then developed modem problems with our computer - so I'm finally uploadng last week's and this week's Everyday Matters Challenges at the same time. I bought this peach just for the challenge and unfortunately can't eat it because of allergies. It looked delicious! Posted by Shirley at 3:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (6) August 12, 2007 "Travel Sketchbook" Manhattan One of my goals for 2007 is to sketch in my own city as if I were on an exotic vacation. Manhattan is so large and so varied, from neighborhood to neighborhood, that I will never tire of the scenes. This is one apartment building on 5th Ave - in the 80s - as seen looking Southeast through foliage in Central Park. I think these are terraces associated with the penthouse(s), but the roof watertank is also probably housed in one of these structures. Posted by Shirley at 10:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (11) August 10, 2007 EDM Challenge #131: Draw a Spray Bottle I always love doing the EDM Challenges and try to make them a learning experience. I still have a great deal of difficulty with reflections, so I chose my clear green plastic spray bottle for this sketch. I think the transparent surface is recognizeable, but the few light reflections that I saw aren't very apparent. More practice needed!! Posted by Shirley at 2:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (9) << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 >>