Don West, Artist

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Month: September 2022

Carroll Beckwith

Friday morning I tried life drawing via Zoom with Silhouette & Shadow. They host frequent life drawing opportunities online, do a nice job managing the

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Portrait Practice

Well, I’m making progress. This one is an excercise from ”How I Crosshatch 3” by France Van Stone. Specifically from the section on Pencil crosshatching.

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Lovely Elese II

This is the first frontal portrait I’ve ever completed. I can thank France Van Stone for helping me improve my skills enough to do that.

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Lovely Elese

I decided to create my own exercise in this Showing Up At The Page course I’m taking by France Van Stone. So I asked this

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Reconnoitering

I found an article from an old newspaper clipping regarding the creation of a protected game preserve in British Columbia sometime back in the early

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Bar People

Here’s a little something different, pen and watercolor. A few years ago, I taught a workshop on watercolor journaling. It was all about sketching with

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Citroën C2V

I took a short hiatus from my usual routine of sketching daily to finally get my bicycle conversion buttoned up and completed. Rather than buy

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