July 2007
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Art sites
8 beautiful and unusual art sites
Here are some of the art sites I featured on See me draw in the last couple of weeks:
Wasted beauty is a beautiful site with eerie drawings.
Julian Beever makes pavement drawings. Large 3d drawings that, from the right angle, look very real.
Amy Bennet constructed a town using model railroad miniatures, landscaping supplies and dollhouse lighting. [...] -
Autism
Allowing for mistakes (Drawing: Towers)
A botched experiment
This was supposed to be the fourth part of my five part series about drawing a dark color around a lighter one. But the fourth experiment was something of a failure.
I was curious whether it was possible to draw on top of the hair spray I use to fixate my drawings. And if [...] -
Technique
A quick and dirty way of drawing fireworks (Sketch: Fireworks)
07.27.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsSeries
This is the third part of a series about drawing dark colors around light colors. The series consists of:An easy artsy way of drawing fireworks
An easy and dirty way of drawing fireworks
A quick and dirty way of drawing fireworks
The easy and greasy way of drawing stars.
(You might also be interested in my easy technique to [...] -
Technique
An easy and dirty way of drawing fireworks (Sketch: Fireworks)
Series
This is the second part of a series of experiments to find an easy technique of drawing a dark color around light colored detail. The series consists of:An easy artsy way of drawing fireworks
An easy and dirty way of drawing fireworks
A quick and dirty way of drawing fireworks
The easy and greasy way of drawing stars
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Technique
An easy artsy way of drawing fireworks (Sketch: Fireworks)
Light color on top of dark color
Ever since I started drawing with color pencils I found one annoying problem. It isn’t possible to draw with a lighter color on top of a darker color. That’s a problem because there’re a lot of situations where you would want to do so. White clouds reflecting on dark [...] -
Drawing
Buyers choice (drawing: Sideways)
I think the time has come to do something I’ve been dreading for a while. I now have a few drawings I really like so I should try to sell them. I’ll start with Sailing into the sunset to try it. If that works out allright I’m going to sell this drawing.
Inspiration
While watching the BBC [...] -
Technique
An easy method to draw fireworks (Sketch: Fireworks)
07.18.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsAfter reading about the 4th of July a few weeks ago I thought that it would be nice if there was some easy method to draw fireworks.
After thinking about it for a while I came up with a few methods. One very easy method use crayons.
When you’re finished with this drawing you’ll end up with [...] -
Blogging
Change in direction (drawing: Church window)
The last few weeks I’ve been doing a lot of abstract drawings. Which is fun but it’s only a small part of the pictures I see in my mind. Most pictures are about people, animals and objects. I can only draw a small portion of these pictures because I don’t have the skills.
This morning I [...] -
Personal
Orange County Choppers (drawing: Flames)
At long last we now can watch Discovery channel in Gouda. For years the local cable company held on to the principle that as long as there was one old lady who didn’t want to watch anything but the Dutch channels, cable should be as cheap as possible. So we had the Dutch channels and [...]
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Personal
Strong feelings (drawing: Cliffside 1st sketch and Ravine 2th sketch)
Tip of my tongue
Have you ever had that you know what you wanted to say but you just couldn’t remember the words.
In Dutch we talk about having something at the tip of ones tongue.
I have a lot this type of experience. Not with words but with pictures.
Sometimes when I try to remember someone, his face [...]
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