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Self Portrait

A Self Portrait to start off the New Year 2018

#5 of 30

My goal is 30 portraits ...... I am learning as I go along.   Simplify....large juicy shapes of value....light touch.... “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb

Daily Sketch #68

I love the old glass ornaments from the mid century era.  These were fun to draw...feeling a little rusty but I'll get back in the swing of things...

Daily sketch #51

I went treasure shopping yesterday and found this small earthenware decanter which I believe may be raku.  It is lovely.  It isn't crooked it is the way that the paper folded when I photographed it.  Anyway the shape and decoration make this a very special piece.

Daily sketch #38

This is a sketch of an actual cast skull done by my friend Sharon Long of Laramie, Wyoming now from Reno Nevada.  The process for producing these skulls is her own creation and she worked with many from the Archeological programs.  I am honored to have one of her pieces.  This guy was in the Civil War and received an injury which lacerated his skull as witness by the groove above the left eye.  He lived for sometime afterwards.  This is the first time that I have attempted to draw him.  I am learning and growing with the process of crosshatching which I now love.  Paintings are coming!!!