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Sketching week 9: Atmosphere, do I look like an “atmosphere”?

Posted on 29 July 2015 by anton

Sketching week 9: Atmosphere, do I look like an “atmosphere”? If you are not French you wont get the joke in the title of this entry: “do I look like an atmosphere” is one of old french movies’ most famous … Continue reading →

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Sketching week 8 3d round and round! …and old masters on top

Posted on 27 July 2015 by anton

Sketching week 8 3d round and round! …and old masters on top Exhausted, the heat is particularly hard on me and 100°F in Paris is horrible: we are not equipped for this: no air conditioning no fan (well, I finally … Continue reading →

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Sketching week 7 silhouettes are made of these….

Posted on 22 July 2015 by anton

Sketching week 7 silhouettes are made of these…. Imagine you are drawing a silhouette, with your finger, ok, a stickman in frontal view, not difficult, everybody will see it’s a human. Well done! Lets up the game a bit: draw, … Continue reading →

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Sketching Week 6 Quick!!! faster, quick, no time…. quick sketches!

Posted on 28 June 2015 by anton

The topic of the week is “quick sketches” and Glenn starts his video (of teaching and demonstrating – an hour plus, worth looking at several times) by asking: what is quick sketching? Being the idiot I am, upon hearing that … Continue reading →

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Sketching week 5: it’s the pit… YEEPPEEH! (really!)

Posted on 21 June 2015 by anton

Have you ever had that sensation that you can’t draw anymore, that all your efforts make you draw worse than before, that you are shmidt (politically correct word, borrowed from an episode of Boston legal: Schmidt Happens) that your art … Continue reading →

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sketching week 4: black is a color and so is paper-white

Posted on 14 June 2015 by anton

Black and white, dark and light…. even if the world is made of shades of grey, both physically and philosophically, light and dark are keys to giving depth to a drawing, we saw that last week already, and this week … Continue reading →

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sketching week 3 depth (and unprocessed food on top!)

Posted on 9 June 2015 by anton

Foreground, middle ground, background, mean depth in a picture, it’s the very magic of drawing: a flat piece of paper looking like it’s got depth! Making that guy look like he is further away that this guy in the drawing, … Continue reading →

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Sketching Week 2 Four Ways To Shrink A Medieval Castle

Posted on 7 June 2015 by anton

Thumbnails – small rough images used to test a composition…. in short, the making of the painting is done at this stage, the rest is almost painting by numbers! Glenn told us of one of his students who got a … Continue reading →

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And now for something completely different!

Posted on 24 May 2015 by anton

And now for something completely different! New semester! Glenn has been busy preparing two new courses for us online (the man is supposed to be retired????). Those new courses are: Sketching (in the street if possible – taking notes of … Continue reading →

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compo2 week 10 grand final with chorus, elephants and… ok no elephants!

Posted on 9 May 2015 by anton

compo2 week 10 grand final with chorus, elephants and… ok no elephants! Last week of the compo 2 course, and it’s the second time I take it (first time was not an easy run for me, but Glenn pushed me … Continue reading →

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