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County Courthouse
Ink and Watercolor pens
A petit jury is not what it sounds like; it is not a jury that resolves petty disagreements, and there are no small furry animals involved. I would have preferred the small, furry animals.
The jury I sat with had to decide a case against a young man involved in a shooting […]
Drawing Day, June 7, 2008
Faber-Castell Ink Pens & Ebony Pencil
In honor of the first international Drawing Day, and I decided to draw my sketching stuff. My trusty mechanical pencil lies behind a small ruler, and the watercolor travel set is in front of the Faber-Castell brush pens. A Raffine sketchbook, Rotring art pen, and a […]
I is for…
Ink, Watercolor
I is for imagination. I is for illustration, inspiration, and the illuminated letters that decorate this sketchbook. I is for ink, intaglio, and intarsia, an inlay method of making images.
I is for indigo, indianthrone, and iron blue. I is for Indian yellow, ivory black, and iris green. I is for their intensity […]
H is for…
Ink, Pastel Pencil
H is for hue. H is for Hansa yellow, Harrison red, and Haarlem blue. H is for Hooker’s, Holly, and Hungarian greens. H is for heliotrope, an impermanent red-violet, and for hartshorn, which was made from calcinated deer antlers.
H is for highlight, hieroglyphics, and history painting. H is for horizon […]
G is for…
Handbook Journal, Ink
G is for green. G is for green earth, gamboge, and giallorino, a light yellow similar to aureolin. G is for green lake, geranium lake, and gofun shirayuki, a traditional Japanese white made from oyster shells.
G is for gilding, gold leaf, and grisaille, an underpainting in gray scale. G is for […]
F is for…
Ink, Graphite
F is for frame. F is for fixative, frisket, and and foamcore. F is for figures, foreground, and finger painting. F is for ferrules that hold bristles on filberts and fan brushes.
F is for Fine Art, Folk Art, and the Fourteenth Street School. F is for Faberge’s fanciful eggs, and for the […]
E is for…
Handbook Journal, Ink
E is for easel. E is for engraving, enamel, and etching, a printmaking method employing acid and wax resist. E is for egg tempera, and for encaustic, a method of painting with heated beeswax.
E is for eraser, and for the earth colors of ochre and umber that come from the ground. […]
D is for…
Handbook Journal, Ink
D is for Decorative Arts. D is for drawing, draftsmanship, and design, the ingredients of a pleasing composition. D is for decoupage, dry-brush, and Damar, a final varnish for oil paintings. D is for diptych, a two-panel painting, and diorama, a three-dimensional display depicting a moment in time.
D is for dye, […]
C is for…
Ink, Pastel Pencils
C is for creativity. C is for caesin, canvas, and copal, an oil painting medium made with resin. C is for collage, cartoon, caricature, and calligraphy, the art of beautiful handwriting.
C is for chalk, charcoal, Conte, and Crayola. C is for color wheel, where we find celadon, cerulean, cyan, cobalt, and […]
Mr. Pelican
Sketchbook, Ink
Here sits ole Mr. Pelican
His beak holds more than his belly can.
He can fill up his beak,
With enough food for a week,
But I’m darned if I know how the hellican!
I finally have a studio update! The shelves are in (no doors yet) and the bookshelf supports have been marked. Yipee! There’s still a […]
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