once upon a time, i used to be a writer. when i started at Wossamatta U., i majored in creative writing, which was deceptively harder than it would seem. once upon a time before that, i used to be an artist.
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she's going in a new direction artistically, and it's been really cool to see her explore new things and try out her voice. when we were hanging out on friday night, i got to see my new favorite painting of hers, and hear the music that went with it, which made it even more awesome. what i like most about the new direction she's going in, is that she's getting really good at expressing the numinous through paint.
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Color wheel, from saturday. Besides noting that the white balance on the treo is insanely jaundiced, i'm posting it to show why this is a fiendishly hard assignment. Not only do you have rings of three different chromas and saturation, each wedge of the color should have the same value within itself, regardless of the chroma. I knocked this one out in 4 hours, and am proud of it.
Etsy shop
i now have a shop up at Etsy, the site for handmade goods of all sorts. right now, i'm just selling my original art, but soon i'll also be selling some of my hand-knitted scarves!... i'll be adding more to the shop very soon!
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it was 5.0 lead mech pencil with HB an 9B woodless faber castel pencils, faber castel kneaded eraser, an array of tortilions an blending stumps, faber castel perfection 7058 sharpened eraser pencil, sandford art gum eraser, an a tuff stuff eraser stick."... in the question post, someone found the original photo this was derived from: (click to embiggen) upon seeing the original photo, it should become fairly obvious that the artist is either temporarily confusing photoshop with a pencil; posted an incorrect description of how she did it (hey, i've been known to get a little crazy with the cutting and pasting between windows); or is just plain misrepresenting her skills.... the dead giveaways that reveal that it's not a pencil drawing: the lack of individual stroke marks from the pencil no indentations in a paper surface no eraser marks no smudges no paper grain or texture in the image no wobble or tremor in the lines extremely even width in the lines of the hair, which would have to have been done with an extremely fine eraser for comparison, let's look at a real, photorealistic pencil drawing by john howe, whom we can safely say is a professional artist: see the difference?
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