Musing
Post Date your Sketchbook
And the countdown begins! The moleskin that I received this summer have 32 pages to fill. How many have I filled so far? 3/32. That’s right. 29 paintings must be completed before January 15th. This sketch took about 40 minutes. No big deal. That’s about 29 hours if I really drag this…
Keeping an Artist Logbook
The thought of keeping record of what I do each day has been in the back of my mind for a week now, as I have been blogging the progress of my paintings. Against my own advice, I took a glace through some of the art books I have purchased…
An Edmonton Urbanscape V
Today I had to take a look at the contrast of the paintings. If the correct color is there but the contrast is not…the painting will look terrible. The solution I go towards is printing off a black and white copy of the image and compare it to the reference. …
Travelling through Crowsnest Pass by Train
Counting the hours…shouldn’t be doing it, but it gives me a good gauge where I am time wise. I won’t linger in the details when I need to simply paint without over thinking it. This painting definitely has a different feel to it compared to the bridge. Much more organic….
An Edmonton Urbanscape IV
Painting from yesterday Painting after today. Detail of the bridge. Trying to figure out how I will do the pillars and if I am happy with the river before I do all four of them. Another detail on the left side of the painting. I think this part is…
An Edmonton Urbanscape III
6am-10am Woke up at 5 this morning in attempts to complete the painting before I go off to work. Didn’t happen. There are many exciting things happening in the painting though that is for sure. I realized that the image that I got printed out is much more purple than…
An Edmonton Urbanscape II
After looking through my paints, I realized that I should pick up some purple. I suppose I could have mixed some but I thought it would be best to get the closest pigment. I understand that I have an artistic license to do whichever with the painting…but sometimes I get…
Neglecting the Innate Talent
Don’t put off exercising, eating right, or leave your spiritual life to the wayside. This I know. Yet I thought my talent was innate and magical…a superpower that was there when I called upon it. I’ve realized just how much I have forgotten how to look at an image and break…
Sketchbook Selected for ‘A Landmark & A Mission’: A Mobile Library Tour
This morning I received a very encouraging email from Art House Coop. With generous support from Ugg Australia’s Creative Council the Sketchbook Project is building a custom-crafted trailer and there is as there is a new and curated mobile library tour selected around the theme ‘A Landmark & A Mission’ with Colossal. Note the keyword is curated and out of the…
Empty Lots
As you have possibly guessed, the sketchbook finally arrived in the mail. Every now and again the unfilled pages would appear in a drawer or on a table, reminding me that I shared time in more “meaningful” areas of life now. What I would put on those pages I wasn’t…
