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Thirty Minutes

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

From life drawing at Sketchy Doodle today.

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The Sneeze

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Cat sketch based on a photo.

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More Sketchcrawl

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

I've been having so much fun seeing what other people did at Sketchcrawl that I decided to post the rest of mine. Century plants in bloom. We stopped for pizza at a place right behind the trees in this sketch.

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Sketchcrawl

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

We had ten artists at Sketchcrawl today. The most stubborn of us kept at it from 10am until almost 3pm (with a lunch break). Here is a sketch of one of the other artists doing a watercolor painting in a coutyard in downtown Tempe.

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Spotted Snake

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

I've been meaning to paint more snakes, so here's another one. Based on the Big Mouth concept from last week.

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Flaming Bokeh

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Here's another bokeh abstract. This one is based on my signature, but I think it looks a little bit like flames.

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Bokeh Bubbles

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Created this bubble art by following a photoshop tutorial.

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Big Mouth

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Today's chiustream challenge was to paint the topic "Big Mouth". My lesson learned? Start with a smaller canvas. This one was 4800 x 4800 px, which is really too big for a speed paint.

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Cheshire Cat

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

This is my entry for Kei Acedera's cheshire cat challenge. We had a week to do it but I waited too long so instead had only a day.

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Ten Minutes

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

To me, life drawing feels a lot like taking a difficult exam in school.

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Dodo Speedpaint

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The challenge on Chiustream today was to paint a Dodo bird. Time limit of one hour. There were some pretty amazing entries.

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