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I’ve been taking my iPad to life drawing now for about 2 years without fail. Sure, I bring along my sketchbook just in case I can’t use my iPad for some reason but the results are more fully developed and experimental than things I would achieve with just my sketchbook! I enjoy having my full […]
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I returned to weekly life drawing in September 2007 when I realized that my day job didn’t mind me not arriving there until 2 pm on Tuesdays. What a revelation drawing from direct observation was again after many years away from it, busy lives with family and business obligations. It was like returning to my
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Nude drawings irk festival Coast Reporter Article April 12, 2018 As the Festival of the Performing Arts (FOPA) opened its three weeks of music competition this week, parents and teachers of junior pianists – some as young as five – were dismayed to find that the piano sessions at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre coincided
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Download the free Adobe Sketch painting app and take some time to learn how to use it. It’s a fabulous portable drawing and painting studio right in your bag! You can take it anywhere and you can’t do that with real paints…. I try to approach it as if I was in my real studio
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Here’s the tiny travel paintbox that inspired me to make my own tiny boxes. Catherine Youngren sat beside me at a Dr. Sketchy life drawing session and added nice little bits of colour to her poses with paints from this tiny box. What a treat! Here’s her story: Even as a very little girl, I
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Please drop in and visit on the Art Crawl! I’m #17 on the art map at 504 Sargent Road, Gibsons, just the next street up from the Arts Building. Walk up the foot trail between South Fletcher and Sargent or drive up. By popular demand the 2014 Sunshine Coast Art Crawl will be open 10:00am–5:00pm
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After wandering down the Oregon Coast, thanks to our new best friend, our car navigation system, we found our way through the winding small streets up into the forest beyond Corvallis to the home of figurative artist Clint Brown just in time for cocktail hour. He and his wife Cheryl have a lovely forested property,
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Have you heard of Dr. Sketchy life drawing groups? They’re a real hoot! Life drawing with an Attitude with a capital A! It’s an international organization with franchises here and there. Last week my husband and I went to the Vancouver group and drew up a storm! He’s just a newcomer to life drawing but
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Growing up in a family of fashion designers, it wasn’t surprising that I was voted Snappiest Dresser in my graduating class. I travel with my camera around my neck. I’ve become very brave about asking total strangers to pose for me and some of them make it into my paintings. In 2007 we were fortunate
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