By Max | Published:
November 9, 2009
I read “People of the Book” and afterward started to look at icons from the fourteenth century. This stuff always knocks me out. She was the subject of some work I surfed through. Click to enlarge.
By Max | Published:
October 27, 2009
On a recent trip to the coast to visit a cousin, I caught this view as we crested the large sand dune. The weather was overcast and the temperature moderate with light breeze. It was a good walk on the beach and then over to the campground to see hundreds of free roaming bunnies. [...]
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By Max | Published:
July 29, 2009
I respect anything that can survive in the harsh realities of the coastal northwest. Callalilies have what it takes and they are an iconic beauty like a nautilus shell. The cottage where we stayed in Yachats had these lovely plants framing many of their abodes.
Also posted in Max's Sketch, Mission Mill, Pens, Sketchbooks, Sketchcrawl, art, en plein air, sketch | Tagged Add new tag, beach, color, en plein air, journal, ocean, sketch, sketchbook, watercolor |
By Max | Published:
May 22, 2009
Found this in the sketchbook. Wanted to do something free hand without the crutch of the pencil. Forgot how long my truck is or how short is the width of the page. Doesn’t matter, cause its still fun to drive. To drive short distances! It sighs everytime we pass a filling station.
Also posted in car, sketch | Tagged car, color, ink, sketch, watercolor |
By Max | Published:
May 22, 2009
My buddy Frank just got his nose holes reamed. I decided to make him a portrait get well card. While I was working on this he showed up at my shop looking as if nothing had happened. I showed him his portrait and told him to wait while I finished the card. So, Frank Get [...]
By Max | Published:
May 21, 2009
I am in the process of developing a new sketchbook artist website.
There are some great websites out there. What’s been done and what can be a fresh twist on this subject, well that’s the question. On my favorite websites what I like best is;
Artist Interviews (20 Question Style Format)
Tools and Supplies Reviews (inkophile, Good [...]
Also posted in art, artist, artist's materials, cms, sketch, supplies, website, wordpress | Tagged materials, tools, website, workspace |
By Max | Published:
May 18, 2009
Mother and daughter churn butter in front of their clapboard house. Taken from a photo at Mission Mill’s 26th Annual “Sheep to Shawl”.
By Max | Published:
May 14, 2009
This Mission Mill sketch/watercolor was done a bit ago, but I had not posted it here. It is my second watercolor and was viewed from the east end of the warehouse looking to the northwest. This motif view is one of my favorites and moving only a foot or two changes the buildings’ relationships drastically. [...]
By Max | Published:
May 6, 2009
Rearranged my things with a new Loxley’s palette. Certainly this will go through an adjustment period. I filled the center compartment with color and will have to put the travel brushes in another part of the kit. Here’s a list of the colors I have placed in the new Loxley 16 palette.
New Gambose, Cad Yellow, [...]
Also posted in Pens, Sketchbooks, artist's materials, palette, supplies | Tagged bromley, color, journal, moleskine, palette, pen, sketchbook, watercolor, Winsor Newton |
By Max | Published:
April 20, 2009
Here’ the current kit. Actually, in the watercolor palette are two Isabey travel #4 and #6 brushes with a Niji waterbrush and dirty folded paper towel. The half pans are W/N artists colors from Bromley’s. I want more! BTW, the palette is starting to looked messy and loved.
My two dollar pencil box has a g-2 [...]
Also posted in Inks, Pens, Sketchbooks, artist's materials, sketch, supplies | Tagged Add new tag, color, ink, moleskine, palette, paper, pen, sketch, sketchbook, watercolor, Winsor Newton |
