Pencil Session – John, Lisa and Mary
“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.
John and Mary
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.
Iguana/gecko
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!
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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!