Thoughts & Musings

Finding My Zen…Maybe

If you read my last post (A Race Against Time), you may remember that there were a few goals I wanted to accomplish for my next urban sketching outing. Listing them here helps keep me accountable, so I must be honest about how well I followed my own advice this week. Goals 1 & 2: so-soGoal…

A Race Against Time

There’s a quiet, stately neighborhood in town with some of the most charming houses from the previous century. Each one has its own unique character, and no two are built from the same mold—a quality that is increasingly being lost in today’s make-it-cheap, build-it-fast housing market. (But we won’t get into that). I walk here…

Mid-Semester Reflection

Whew! We have officially made it to the halfway point in Life Drawing class. We’ve spent hours drawing models in the studio. We’ve written numerous blog posts documenting our process and progress. We’ve sketched live animals, of all creeping and crawling kinds. We’ve participated in a live drawing gallery exhibition, sharing our work from the…