I haven’t made many of these sessions in the last few months but I finally got to this one. I decided to go with charcoal because I have never really liked charcoal, (to messy?), so I have been thinking lately that it is something I should spend more time with. We start with about ten … Read more
Going through the second half of the year or so, looking at some of the sketches I have done… most of these have been posted on my instagram page close to the date they were completed. I have added the better ones to my webpage https://3fb.77c.myftpupload.com/sketches/ I will work on adding them to my pinterest … Read more
Here are some sketches I added to the page on my website: “From the Sketchbooks” Of course this isn’t all the sketches I have done, just the ones that ended up being somewhat presentable. As always, I wonder why I do this sort of thing. I think to myself that I am honing the skills … Read more
7-16-22 I am trying to work larger on the page with this. Seems like I start bigger usually and then things shrink down as I get more accurate with the forms. So I tend to work with small compartments of the page. Here I tried to start large and stay large. Some success I guess. … Read more
I managed to make it to a figure drawing session on 5/26/22 at Art Works in Eagan. I guess I wasn’t completely disappointed with my work when I looked at it the next day. We usually start off with ten poses at one minute each for gesture drawings, these are mostly charcoal and soft pencil … Read more
5/20/2022 Over the past few years I have been trying to spend at least a little time every day doing some sketching. Sometimes they can be rather refined sketches and sometimes very rough. For some reason I feel that I want to work at getting better at this craft. I probably spend 20 to 60 … Read more
This is a door project I have been working on. It is basically a frame and raised panel door made of Alder. I made several sketches before I started , this is what we settled on: At this point the hard part is to be patient and not rush it. It needs to take the … Read more
Here are my sketchbook pages from the first figure drawing session of the year, last Saturday the 16 of January 2021 at Art Works in Eagan. I just brought a simple sketch book and an ink pen with water soluble ink and a water brush to push it around a little bit. I tried to … Read more
Here are some of my better sketches and I will also put them on the sketchbooks page on the website, (a page that has been neglected lately). Some of these I think actually turned out OK. I am happy with the volume of sketching I accomplished over the last 365 days or so. Still not … Read more
A page out of the sketchbook, pencil drawing by artist John Huisman