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Fresh Start
LNY had quickly come and gone. Temperature returned to double digits last week and the clocks had just sprung forward for an hour overnight. It felt like Spring has returned. Last Monday I started the first class of a workshop focusing on linoleum relieve prints using a Vandercook press. I enrolled in the course to […]
tagged: art, creative-mondays, creativity, joy, life, life-drawing, prayers, sketching, studio, time, weather
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Creative Monday
Spent the evening on this Creative Monday relearning how to do portraiture, but instead of using conté, I tried using brush pens and without initial pencil drafts. Skimmed through the old life-drawing textbook and tried drawing the many facial features on it. I was able to sketch them out much quicker, more precise, and the result looked even more life like! […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, life-drawing, patience, portraiture, prayer, self-control, spiritual-gifts, thankful
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Visiting Uncle
My family insisted on visiting my uncle at his home this afternoon even though he was reluctant to see people after his liver cancer relapsed. Joined by a couple of our relatives from Mainland, there were a total of 9 people visiting! At my uncle’s home, my young nieces from Toronto were kept busy playing […]
tagged: family, life-drawing, love, patience, portraiture, prayer, sketches, thankful
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Live Portraiture
Asked a friend to tag me along to do some life drawing tonight. It must have been like 10 years since I enrolled in a life drawing course for my cartooning certificate, I still remember how awe inspired I was seeing the instructor do gestural figure drawings with ink and brush and no drafts. Tonight’s […]
tagged: art, calligraphy, creative-mondays, life-drawing, nostalgia, patience, portraiture, self-control, thankful
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