“Learning to draw, before you paint, is like learning to walk before you run.” (Don Getz)
This week John and Mary McDonald and I met in Canoa Ecuador for some R&R. We pulled out paper and pencils and practiced shading and contour drawing before attempting to capture the essence of trees. John and I were soon lost in our drawings while Mary grew bored (?) and confessed that she preferred painting.
We purchased a sheet of thick “Kraft” paper and retreated to a beach-side restaurant to create a new design that is part iguana and part gecko. Mary quickly weaned into ‘design mode’ and enjoyed adding details.
Soon we will be sipping our morning coffee and bringing the design to life with paint! Because we took a timeout to map the details, the painting process will go well!
Very good activity to help people to start painting.
I like your R&R!
I love to see how everyone sees the same scene through different eyes, great interpretation of the tree with fence. I recognized which would be yours instantly. I like your way of starting a morning.
A wonderful demonstration of something I was trying to communiate in my comment section yesterday. Even in a family, everyone remembers certain events in different ways. It’s not bad – it’s natural, and it’s because it’s the human mind that’s involved. Here, it’s the human “eye” – that is, vision shaped by experience.
Great advice on more than just painting o’ wise one. BTG
Some great advice and a wonderful morning starter…! Good luck with the following work!
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Wow love those trees I never draw with anybody what a great idea, that iguana is looking good cannot wait
here is mine no poem today I am super busy ….
http://miartedoris.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/the-owl-and-the-princess-el-buho-y-la-princesa/
Oh, I’m soooo jealous! I wish I were closer. Great to see the progress and the comparisons. I don’t know if I will have a sketch this week. I’ll try, but I’ve been super busy with my library. So many projects, so little time.
Private lessons. YAY! Fun! This looks like a fabulous work in progress. 🙂
We’re back in San Clemente and hopefully wordpress will work properly. It didn’t seem to like my xoom. Yes, we had so much fun and learned a lot esp with sketching and shading. But most of all we finally got to spend some quality time with you..so thank you again, amiga Hope you also got some needed R & R..love, Mary y John
i’ve had a very quiet day at home! xavier has a new ‘tractor’ arriving after dark, and i asked (begged) to ride with him to the farm where it will be unloaded. i think i’m more excited than he!
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PS. The painting made it home safely 🙂
how great! mary, you surely guarded it with your life! thanks again; that was a great escape!
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Had a great time celebrating John’s (and Lisa’s) birthday in Canoa plus our eighth anniversary. As a super bonus Lisa gave us one on one sketching/shading lessons and the three of us sketched out the bones for a painting. Time out for art for Lisa, Mary and John. 🙂
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Moving at a turtle’s pace, but here’s this week’s Timeout for Art. http://retirenicaragua.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/timeout-for-art-walk-first-at-a-turtles-pace/
your art is FANTASTIC! Forgive me for the very long comment, but better late than never!