I had a wonderfully long weekend with my BFF in San Francisco shopping and eating, in Nevada City shopping and eating and at her beautiful home in Penn Valley, Ca....shopping and eating!!!! I love you gf!
San Francisco cablecar
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9:25 PM
Very, very quick sketch done in less than 2 minutes! The cable car was loading people at the turnaround so it wasn't moving. I added the color at home.
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fountain pen,
moleskeine,
travel,
watercolor
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So where am I now?
Thursday, March 27, 2008
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5:12 PM
a few hundred miles from home, with my bff, a bottle of wine, bread and a happy reunion. This was lunch at the top of the Macy,a building in.....,,,,?
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charcoal on sketch paper 18x24
Monday, March 24, 2008
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7:01 PM
This was done last week at the March Figure Drawing session at the Riverside Art Museum.
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Bunnies
Saturday, March 22, 2008
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12:17 PM
Bunnies, originally uploaded by mmvgonzales.
Sent from me and my cool iPhone
I'm at work today and tomorrow. We are trying to send as many kids as we can home for Easter. I had about an hour between medications and care so I painted the bunnies on one of the doors to a patient room. So, Happy Easter everyone!!!!
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window art
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Mile Grazie Michelangelo!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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4:54 PM
I had said I wasn't going to post all my class drawings every week. But this week was an especially frustrating and insightful. Apart from getting a start to the master study assignment, there were new concepts to learn and employ.
On Monday she had us begin looking at the figures basic geometric shape and even though we aren't drawing it every time, we should be seeing those shapes when we approach a figure drawing. If you look closely at the long pose of the seated girl you can see the fine box shape around the head.
Today after our warm up gesture sketches we did 3 erasure drawings. I didn't like this exercise at all! You cover the paper with conte, smear it with a chamois and then with a kneaded erasure you begin to lift out the lights to bring the figure out of the paper. Some students really liked this, I wanted desperately to pick up my conte!
*I had a very insightful dream last night. I was in the studio at school all by myself. I had just finished a drawing on a grey sheet of paper and was unhappy with it. While pondering what was wrong with it I heard a male voice tell me to "pick up the head."
"What?" I said
"Pick up the head"
I looked around to see a pleasant young man dressed in robes talking to me. I knew instantly it was Michelangelo.
I asked again, " Pick up the head?" I wasn't sure what he meant so I reached for the drawing. As soon as I touched it the head of the drawn figure was in my hands in 3 dimensional form. I gaped in astonishment!
He handed me a wooden dowel and told me to drive it through the top of the head; and told me that should help solve some of my problems.
Speechless........I woke up.
If you notice on some of the gestures from today.....I have a fine line (dowel) drawn through the top of the head. It did help!
Mile Grazie Michelangelo!!!!!! Baci!!!
ps: the crease in the drawings is from a stack of books that fell on the roll of drawings. Dammmmm. I might have to iron them out because I have to turn in some of these drawings.
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erasure,
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Marter Study no. 1
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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3:38 PM
First of eight is complete. This was hard work! I had to pick a figure drawing done by one of the masters. I choose Michelangelo. Then after obtaining a good photocopy I was to trace the drawing's tonal values. Next I had to copy the drawing using the materials the artist used and take observational notes about what I was obseving and learning by doing this. Lastly I was to do my own drawing using what I learned from the master and in the media used by the master artist. M poor Rudy agreed to posing nude for me but I told him I wanted to do some sketching first. So, he could keep his underpants on while i sketched. But I liked this seated pose so well (at least in conte) that I decided to use it for my study. Whee...he narrowly escaped this time!
Now, off to get ready for the theater! Rudy and I are going into Los Angeles to see Sweeny Todd at the Ahmenson.
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conte,
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other artist
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Personal Best!!!
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10:25 AM
Today I hit a milestone with a personal best for a 5km run, 32min & 33sec. After recovering from my respiratory infection I am back to my good state of health and have begun to kick up the pace a bit on my training runs. It's been really cold out so I have opted for the treadmill at the gym this week. I'm still slow but for a 52 year old just getting started, I'm proud of myself! 6 weeks to go for the 5k in Century City to support Children's Cancer Research.
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