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  • April 13, 2020 at 1:57 pm in reply to: John H, 100 day challenge, Sketchbook time #467242
    John Huisman
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    Day 2, 4/13/20. This is another sketch page that was started a while ago but I wanted to play with the wine glass some more with just the gouache. So the larger wine glass part was added today, probably took a half hour. I have just started working with the gouache so I am still trying to get the hang of it. I have a tendency to want to reach for the ink pen to finish it off but this time I just let it go here.

    #100DayArtChallenge #PathToMastery

    April 12, 2020 at 1:02 pm in reply to: What is the 100 Day Art Challenge? (Start Here) #464986
    John Huisman
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    I am not sure how to do this. I posted my first day post here and it disappeared.
    It says in the initial post to post your image to topic… not sure what that means, I thought maybe we reply to our initial post but that doesn’t seem possible.
    And I can’t seem to edit my original post. What am I missing?

    April 12, 2020 at 12:14 pm in reply to: What is the 100 Day Art Challenge? (Start Here) #464933
    John Huisman
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    This is scary. But I will give it a try. Everyday I get up and think, today I will spend some time in a sketch book. Most days I fail.
    I have a lot of sketchbooks. It seems like I accumulate them as if I will burn through them quickly but I probably have enough sketchbooks and drawing supplies to last a couple years at the rate I use them.
    I don’t want to try to set a challenge where I would do a certain thing every day, like a face or a figure or something that might take more time than I have.
    I think all I can do is to say I will spend 15 minutes in a sketchbook every day. Since most sketches or page fillings take longer than that, it might be the same page for several days in a row but I will try to post the progress shots here.
    I have not finished Steve’s sketchbook course yet but what I have watched I have found to be extremely inspiring and my goal here is to just fill the pages in the hopes that I will be a better drawer at some point in the future.
    I shudder to think of all the pages I will be leaving my kids to struggle over what to do with after I am gone but that will be their problem I guess. Better than antique furniture or something. At least paper you can burn or recycle.

    Anyway, that is my challenge: 15 minutes in the sketchbook every day.
    If I miss a day I need to make it up, (30 minutes the next day).
    The goal is to become better with the sketch mediums: pencil, ink, gouache and my observations skills.
    A lot of them will be figures and faces from pictures here in NMA or photos from around the house, (pictures of kids etc).
    Some will be sketching from real life like sitting in my living room or in my vehicle parked somewhere.

    Yikes… here we go.

     

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