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February 2010

Sketching...

Every artist’s ideal must be to sketch whatever, wherever, whenever and to fill a book with beautiful drawings. I suspect it happens for very few. Nevertheless, the ability to draw well is essential, I believe, if an artist is to produce good paintings. This does not mean that you have to draw your subjects so that they look like what everybody else (or anybody else, for that matter) thinks they look like. What it is important is that they look like what you want them to look like – and that can be as realistic or abstract as you want them to be.

Fortunately, like most things, the more we practice, the more competent we become. Drawing can be fun – and it can be very frustrating, but getting into the habit of doing some drawing every day can only help it improve. So, try to carry a sketch book at all times – and then to find a few minutes every day to fill a page or two.

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January 2010

New Year’s Resolutions...

Many people make ‘New Year’s Resolutions’. Why not look at a quantity of the art work you have completed through 2009. Hopefully you will see it with ‘fresh’ eyes. Try to look at it positively, but critically, and this may give you your resolution for 2010 – perhaps to develop some aspect of your drawing or painting, to experiment with a different medium, to attempt new subjects……….to stretch yourself in some way.

Whatever you do, have a Happy and Successful 2010.

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