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:
May 27, 2009
The girls went in search of a good shopping fix. I passed the time hanging out by the car and then I sat down and did this quick sketch of the southwest corner parking lot scene. If nothing else I am building my confidence to sketch en plein air. With sketchcrawl only forty some days [...]
Posted in Max's Sketch, Pens, Sketchbooks, car, en plein air, moleskine, sketch | Also tagged car, cars, en plein air, moleskine, parking lot, sketch, sketchbook |
By Max | Published:
May 26, 2009
I drew a quick sketch of my daughter playing in the sand. Did Not have a clue on how to build any perspective to the beach and ocean. It was really cool en plein air.
Posted in Inks, Pens, Sketchbooks, en plein air, moleskine, sketch | Also tagged beach, en plein air, girl, journal, moleskine, ocean, plein air, sketch, sketchbook |
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, [...]
Posted in Pens, Sketchbooks, artist's materials, palette, supplies, watercolor | Also tagged bromley, color, journal, moleskine, palette, sketchbook, watercolor, Winsor Newton |
By Max | Published:
April 23, 2009
This sketchbook entry is a tribute to a car show that came to Mission Mill a week ago Saturday. One of the coordinators owned this and we talked a bit about cars. His restored Fairlane 500 and my checker cab in 1600 pieces.
I am just using the pen and have not initially done this in [...]
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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 [...]
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By Max | Published:
April 16, 2009
This was a quickie for an anniversary card. It’s our 21st. So, I opened my never tried masking pen and proceeded to wreck yet another brush! It was fun though because I kept over-doing the pigment and in desperation I used a paper towel to sop up and manipulate excess color. (which is a cool [...]
By Max | Published:
April 12, 2009
Sketchcrawl 22 was lot’s of fun. Mike and Lola showed about 10am at my shop at Mission Mill. We chatted and shared what we were using and had brought for the en plein air outing.
Mike, the more experienced artist, was very helpful in showing and explaining his style and tools of the trade. Being very [...]
Posted in Inks, Pens, Sketchbooks, Sketchcrawl | Also tagged artist, edm, flickr, ink, journal, Lola, Mike Bergen, Mission Mill, paper, plein air, sketch, sketchbook, Sketchcrawl |
