Today we had our last life drawing session for the spring quarter. Shawna was our model and gave us great poses as usual. I had a few good drawings and paintings, especially at the first. Since it was our last session, we had champagne and goodies at our break, and we posed for a group photo at the end. It’s been a good year of painting and drawing with my friends.
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Today I painted this scene for the tenth time. I figure that repetition can be a good teacher.
When I make a painting over and over, I gradually improve the various elements of it. In this case, it took me about eight tries before I got the clouds the way I want them ( some hard edges and some soft edges) and it took two more tries to get the composition right.
Here’s a few of the many attempts I made on this painting.
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Yesterday and today I built this website. It’s a big pain to build a website and it takes a long time. Last night I bought a website hosting package from Hostgator, but right away I found that I couldn’t transfer my domain to this site.
So I called their support line and actually had a good conversation with Nil (from India, I presume), and got that straightened out. This morning I tried to log in, but I realized I didn’t know my username and password, so I called tech support again and was helped by a young woman named Lee.
Then I spent the better part of the day modifying the template so it looks like an artist’s website. I browsed through a number of artist’s websites to get an idea of what I wanted. It’s a big headache to learn a whole new system. Lots of trial and error, over and over, until you learn.
Once I had the basic structure of pages and posts, I added lots of my watercolors and drawings. I think I’m pretty satisfied with it now. I hope it will show my art work so that anyone who’s interested can get an idea of what I do.
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