Life Drawing
Here is my pencil sketch of our model from today’s life drawing group. This is the first time I have felt like I’ve drawn a reasonably good portrait. When I was drawing and I realized my sketch was actually coming out okay, I had a feeling best described as a mixture of profound joy and slight disbelief that I actually was making a good sketch.
Posts in Snow
Taking my dog for a walk, I came across these cedar posts in my neighbor’s field. I liked the patterns of the posts in the snow and the shadow detail around each post in the image below. Another 30-40 cm of snow on the way tonight…
50 cm of Snow
Just when I fell into the trap of thinking winter might be fading, we get another 50 cm of snow—this time heavy, wet snow that snapped tree limbs and knocked out power. Here are some of our neighborhood children on top of a 2 meter high snow pile that has accumulated this winter.
Drawing
In January, I started working my way through Betty Edwards’ book Drawing on the right side of the brain. Aside from helping me pay even closer attention to what I see, it’s turned out to be deeply satisfying to finally be able to draw a reasonable facsimile of a face-such as this attempt to copy a sketch Henri Fuseli (1741-1825) made of himself:
Great Gulf, New Hampshire
Had a brief opportunity to make a few pictures this weekend in the Great Gulf:
Winter Bog, Presidential Range, NH
Do photographs tell stories?
Garry Winnogrand said that “photographs do not tell stories; they tell you what something looks like to a camera”. While I think that many times he is correct on this statement (at least in its most literal interpretation) I think the following picture DOES tell a story:
End or Beginning?, Brunswick, ME
The question is: what is the story?
House, Brunswick, ME
Presidential Range, New Hampshire
Appalachian Trail, Presidential Range, White Mountains, NH
The start of a new Blog
I’ve finally bit the bullet and am starting to learn how to use WordPress. So, this is my first entry, and I will slowly return return previous content and add new contact as time allows. Right now, things will change somewhat sporadically while I learn css and other features of WordPress.
