Jamie's Sketchbook

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  • Value & Color Studies

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    These value and color studies were harder than I thought they would be! Especially Edinburg! Such a valuable exercise to train the eyes into seeing values and how to achieve those values with color! 

  • Master Palette

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    For my Master Palette exercise I decided to take “local color” quite literally. I took a walk around my Phoenix, Arizona neighborhood looking at the colors and taking some photographs. (A very short walk, it was 106F/41C!) What IS the color of the tile roofs, the stucco, the cactus, the palo verde, the bougainvillea? I…

  • R1 Wardrobe

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    I focused on achieving patterns, so my colors are off. I tried to use the granulation of Lunar Black to make the all black items have a little life in the sketch. I’m pretty happy with my results. 

  • Pigments

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    For this class I’m using Jane Blundell’s Ultimate Mixing palette. I was surprised how few of these colors are transparent. Almost all of them are staining, as well. Fascinating. I’ve long been interested in pigments and I have really loved this lesson.

  • Mixing Colors L2 E1

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    It was great to mix just two colors in a variety of ways on one large page (8×10 Stillman & Birn Alpha). There are some new to me colors in my palette that I haven’t mixed much previously, so I focused on those pigments, primarily. My first mix is with Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine (All…

  • TN Two Ways

    TN Two Ways

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    My assignment was to draw something on a table in public, using two different types of materials. One in pen only, with spot color, and the other in watercolor pencil. Well, due to the current massive surge in COVID cases in my city, I’m not doing anything in public! However, this TN was on my…

  • Foundations (4th Run)

    Foundations (4th Run)

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    Happy New Year! I am so very excited about Foundations this year. As I was doing Buildings a lot of the basics really clicked for me in new ways, and thusly I’m quite excited to do Foundations, and focus on those basics, and allow my new depth of understanding to really be explored and practiced!…

  • Wrapping up Buildings, Looking forward to Foundations

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    Buildings was great for me this year. I didn’t quite manage to finish. Again. But I got farther than I have in previous years, and had a number of breakthroughs. Seasonal depression is a thing, and in the middle of a pandemic its far worse, so I will be kind and forgiving with myself about…

  • Edges, Shapes, Volumes

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    I seem to “getting” the lessons of this buildings course more than I ever have in the past. Learning how to sketch really is an ongoing process. You think you get it one time, but then you realize there was so much more to get. I keep getting more and more every single time! My…

  • First Week of Buildings Class

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    The first week of Buildings class, and I’m already behind! I keep promising myself I will NOT consider myself behind, because when I do, that’s when I quit. I don’t want to quit, I love this class far too much! (And the people! The people are so great!) I have thusly given myself permission to…

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