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pastels – Creative Rituals
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Drawing, Painting and Writing As Meditation. Day 9, “Get Ready Set Go! April 2, 2015. April 2, 2015. Between appointments and life obligations, I got off course with my postings. Today was an exceptionally busy day, but I still wanted to get back in touch with my creative ritual habit. Soooo tonight I seized the moment while supper was cooking. 8230;if I was going to capture a quick study of this tulip! I decided to play with them for my sketch. Not the best photo, but you get the idea. :D.
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Day 11 Drawing Challenges – Creative Rituals
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Drawing, Painting and Writing As Meditation. Day 11 Drawing Challenges. July 6, 2015. A sketch I did a couple of years ago of a mandavila’s shadow on my screen door. One of my goals is to try to fit small sessions of drawing into my days. This isn’t always easy due to the demands of life, but it is amazing how even a few minutes on a consistent basis can make a difference in your observation and technical skills. I am subscribed to an online drawing community,. June Mandala using notan. Newsletter and/or...
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Day 8, “Makeshift Studio” – Creative Rituals
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Drawing, Painting and Writing As Meditation. Day 8, “Makeshift Studio”. March 28, 2015. March 28, 2015. If you would like to receive these posts in your email box, you can subscribe by clicking the button to the right of this post. Thanks! My “real” studio is in the basement, so I scurried downstairs to retrieve my supplies: paints, palette, thinner, and easel. I decided to do a quick study on Arches Oil Paper using only one color of oil paint– Terra Rosa. It is one of my favori...Painting the sketch was...
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Day 7, “How Sketches Help” – Creative Rituals
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Drawing, Painting and Writing As Meditation. Day 7, “How Sketches Help”. March 25, 2015. March 26, 2015. Exploring the nuances of your subject with preliminary sketches, can definitely save you time for future work. A bit of exploration, even for a short while, can cause greater fluidity when capturing your subject in greater detail later. This point rang true for me recently when I painted a miniature orchid in my studio. 3x3in sketches in pencil. Day 6 “Ivy in Window”. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Today...
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Charcoal – Creative Rituals
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Drawing, Painting and Writing As Meditation. Day 4 “Playing & Memories”. March 15, 2015. March 16, 2015. Finished drawing and subject. Oh I had so much fun playing and exploring with this subject and medium! This sketch brought back old memories from when I was nine years old and taking art lessons. I was actually afraid of my art teacher–honestly, she was quite old and strict. My tools, vine charcoal stick, kneaded eraser, and dry paint brush. Because the charcoal is so easy to manipulate and soften, I ...
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Blind Contour Drawing – Creative Rituals
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Drawing, Painting and Writing As Meditation. Category: Blind Contour Drawing. Day 6 “Ivy in Window”. March 21, 2015. This was a quick warm up where I further explored the Ivy plant from yesterday. I was attracted to the way the light fell on it and the sweeping arc of the longer stem. Day 3 “A Surprise Bloom”. March 13, 2015. March 13, 2015. I decided it would make a great subject for one of my creative ritual sessions! I started my sketching time with a blind contour drawing which helped me get acquaint...
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Arches Oil Paper – Creative Rituals
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Drawing, Painting and Writing As Meditation. Category: Arches Oil Paper. Visual Storytelling and Daily Sketch. March 16, 2016. Visual Storytelling: Painting of tulip painted from life on arches oil paper. NFS. An area I have been exploring recently is Visual Storytelling. I will probably be discussing this topic in more depth in my upcoming Ezine. The other day I had fun experimenting with this concept and created the image above. It is a flat lay in photography terms. March 16, 2016. All the other butto...
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Creative Rituals – Page 2 – Drawing, Painting & Writing As Meditation
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Drawing, Painting and Writing As Meditation. Daily Sketch: Virginia Creeper. October 21, 2016. Today’s Simple Nature Sketch, NFS, October 20, 2016. October 18, 2016. Today’s Simple Nature Sketch. Years ago my sister-in-law gave us a few pieces of a Virginia Creeper she had growing on an arbor. We placed the pieces around our deck by merely sticking them into the ground. Anne had assured us that they would take root. Well amazingly they did! Newsletter and/or Blog Posts sign up. October 18, 2016. One of o...
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Pencil – Creative Rituals
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Drawing, Painting and Writing As Meditation. Daily Sketch: Beach Wormwood. September 30, 2016. Today’s Simple Nature Sketch, NFS, September 30, 2016. September 30, 2016. Today’s Simple Nature Sketch. It was a beautiful autumn day, so I went for a stroll on the beach. Along the way I found this plant that reminded me of dusty miller. It was growing within the dune grass, adding an appealing contrast with its grey-green hue. Newsletter and/or Blog Posts sign up. Daily Sketch: Maple Leaf. September 26, 2016.
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Day 10, “Little Bursts of Sunshine!” – Creative Rituals
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Drawing, Painting and Writing As Meditation. Day 10, “Little Bursts of Sunshine! April 11, 2015. Okay, I am officially in withdrawal from lack of vegetation and getting out on location! Although the days are getting warmer and melting has begun, we still have piles of snow. So when I saw these little beauties in the grocery store I snapped them up and toted them home. Of course they would have to be painted! My session was like therapy today–bringing joy and sunshine into my day. Day 11 Drawing Challenges.
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