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145. Drawing Your Territory
A step-by-step for drawing a building in your neighborhood
After last week’s post about the bear house I hadn’t drawn, I’ve been paying more attention to the places on my regular route around town that I love/like/am into/am curious about,...
The Bear House Burned Down, and I Hadn't Drawn It
I was sad to hear that the bear house had burned down, but I was also very confused about where, exactly, the bear house was—and what it was.
I live just a block from one of the entrances to Washington Park, a 450-acre part that includes P...
144. Painting the weather
A few ideas for painting clouds
There are all kinds of fancy approaches to painting clouds, but the one I rely on the most is: Don’t overthink it. Put down a sky, and put something in front of the sky, and call it a day.
Drawing the Weather
A few days ago, a rather dramatic storm system moved into Portland. It had been unusually hot—temps reaching 100 degrees, which is rare here—so I dashed out to the nearest swim dock to jump in the river.
Which was great! Until it wasn’t! T...
143. A Naturalist Journal-Style Page
Here's a format to experiment with
At the workshop I taught last weekend, I talked about this idea of the “picturesque,” a term introduced by William Gilpin in the eighteenth century to describe “a peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeabl...
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