I have learned a thing or two, (or three or lots!) over the past 31 days of the #stradaeasel “Drawing and Painting From Life” Challenge. Update: there were about 500 artists participating in the challenge! What fun! I’d like to share my initial impressions of “lessons learned” for doing the challenge. Goal Accomplished! But
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Reflections Are New. That is to say drawing and painting reflections is something new for me! Intention. Greetings! I’d like to share with you my last three pieces for the #stradaeasel January Drawing and Painting from Life Challenge. What I’d like to talk about is drawing and painting reflections. You see, I do not
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About The Easel. Greetings! Only five days left in the Strada Easel January Challenge! This month seems to be flying by all of a sudden! Life became busy and next thing I know, its Day 26! Recently, I was asked the question “what makes a Strada Easel so special?” What an excellent question
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Its About Doing Studies. What I’d like to do with today’s article is talk to you about why I do studies. You might have noticed that I’m called my drawings and paintings for the Strada Easel challenge “studies”. I’m doing that for a reason: I’m studying! With this article, I’ll also be current in posting
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Experimenting With Paper and Paint. Greetings! Strada Easel challenge day 18 studies are about experimenting. For my first piece, I decided to try Daniel Smith‘s “Moonglow”, a lovely blend of pigments that make a nice neutral grayish tint. The experiment? Getting a feel for how the blend of pigments handles. This first study was done
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Muddy Is Good. Day 17, #stradaeasel Challenge. Greetings! Today’s muddy color study is Day 17 of the #stradaeasel challenge. I was pleased with the grays I used today and thought I’d share with you how I achieved these subtle colors. The Set Up. To begin with, today’s still life set up was gray. What
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Greetings! Its Day 16 and I’d like to talk about inspiration! To explain, I have been plugging away at the Strada Easel 31 Days in January Challenge. Looking at all I’ve done, I thought it might be a good idea to start grouping some of the paintings together in order to eventually post all 31
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Three Studies. Hi! I thought I’d take a few moments and catch up on posting my daily studies for the #stradaeasel challenge. I have been posting them to my Facebook personal page and business page. But, not everyone has Facebook. More to the point, I like to have my studies, paintings and drawings posted here.
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Add Lemon. Lemon and tea just go together like pepper and salt. So, on day 4 of Strada Easel’s challenge, I added a wedge to my tea bag still life. I rarely have a fresh one in the refrigerator, but today I did. So, it was inevitable that a wedge or slice would wind up
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Problem? I’d like to talk about problem paintings. To explain, today’s study for the Strada Easel January 31 Day Challenge almost works; but not quite. Tea Bag Two (Too). Speaking of today’s work, like yesterday’s, its another tea bag study. I’d like to explain why I do several paintings of a subject before I discus
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