Don West, Artist

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Category: People

Woman in Blue

Continuing with the focus of the last post, another 10-minute watercolor from an example in the book ”10-Minute Watercolors” by Hazel Soan. I can see

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Portrait of a Man

A fellow artist, Gary Rubin, produces small format pencil portraits and posts them on Instagram. I stumbled upon his work a month or two ago

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Portrait of Woman

I’ve been sketching and studying several portrait artist videos on YouTube lately and also collecting random images of models for practice. This is one of

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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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