Bullet: result

on vegetation.

I have this kind of unearned confidence when it comes to sketching vegetation. Y’know: the trees, shrubs, small plants that populate my urban sketches. I know this because I tend to follow the less-is-more rule when it comes to sketches where the focal point is the architecture—leaving the vegetation as a kind of quasi-cartoonish detail

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on brush care.

A couple yards of fabric, a sewing machine, an evening of work, and a simple idea. I spent Wednesday after work and until bedtime using my crafting skills to make myself a paint roll-up, a slotted case into which I can tuck each of my paintbrushes into a neat, organized row and then roll it

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on painting sunsets.

Over the last couple days I’ve left a short note about two different things; sunrises and daily sketching in March. As March begins and I pull out my sketchbook for the first of thirty one consecutive days sketching and painting, I return here to note that this first sketch is compounding from those two previous

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