Even complex or irregular objects are built on the structure of basic shapes. Reduce the object to basic shapes, pencil them in, and then build on them.
Tag: sketching
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – April 29, 2025
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” Ansel Adams Doing a sketch or snapping a shutter – it becomes art when we think about what we are doing and seeing.
This week in The Pearl and beyond – April 25, 2025
Picasso painted his anti-war Guernica in 1937 in response to the bombing of the town of Guernica. It was a form of resistance that artists have often used. Another form of resistance in art and in life is “Illegitimi non carborundum” – don’t let the bastards get you down. Hope, joy, and beauty are a…
This week in The Pearl – April 16, 2025
One of the reasons we chose The Pearl district of Portland is that it does have a bit of a Parisian ambience. Here is my view as I write. A cobble stone – technically basalt stones that were originally used as ballast on ships – tree-lined streets, bicycles, people walking, and sitting outside at a…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – April 15, 2025
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
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