I was taken back in a large art store yesterday when the clerk said, “we don’t carry supplies for stretching canvas.” Really? I had come in to purchase the wooden stretcher bars to supply the framework needed for the Belgian linen canvas I customarily use for portraits. As grocery stores and hardware stores have comeContinue reading “Stretching A Canvas”
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Teaching Art – Part of the New Adventure
Last night students had the choice of either drawing the poseable figure, the fresh-cut flowers, or using the grid technique to enlarge their own personal photograph reference shot into an outlines sketch size suitable for drawing. I greatly enjoy seeing their progress and hearing of their artistic discoveries. The feedback they offer encourages me and gives meContinue reading “Teaching Art – Part of the New Adventure”
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