Seeing Class – Relentless Robin

Hand Lettering

Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing. The art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner. Hand Lettering is the ‘art of drawing letters’, making it a much more flexible and accessible art form. My hand writing and hand lettering is awful.

Persimmon

One of the assignments for the Seeing class at the online Sketchbook School was to draw an object with a pen the same color as the object. This persimmon was a great model.

Red Bird

3 Object Contour

Continual Line Timed

Toast

Have you ever really looked at a piece of toast?

Fast Slow Self-portraits

My Fasts were done in about a minute with turquoise Blicks liquid watercolor. My slows were about 15 minutes with a black paper mate flair pen.

Continuous Line Dragon

I love dragons.

Fast Slow Self-Portraits

The fast / slow progress is two drawings done one on top of the other. The first is done quickly in color with large strokes. The second is done in ink for an hour with lots of details. My Fasts were done in about a minute with yellow liquid watercolor. My slows were about 10Continue reading “Fast Slow Self-Portraits”

Why Self-portraits?

I am always available and free to model. I can not complain about the results or the process. I can chart my progress over time. Maybe one day one drawing will look like me. I can experiment with different techniques and mediums. There is a theory that I will get much better at other people’sContinue reading “Why Self-portraits?”