Wake Up Your Brain Cells!

 “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in today's world. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” ~ Dr. Seuss  Here's SE 30-35 with color applied. These will be the subjects of our 5th Live Group Session of Classes here at Sandarosa Studio. You can see more about it here: https://www.sandysandyfineart.com/2025-live-session-5.html

Chicken King

Here Comes The Chicken King!

🐥Day 35 ~ SE-35-25 👑

Moo-re Ice Cream Please!

We All Scream For Ice Cream

 Day 34 ~ SE 34-25 

The Mail's Here!

See more about doing U.O.W. People here:

https://www.sketchingeveryday.com/2011/08/draw-people-with-simple-formula-by-tony.html

Day 33 ~ SE-33-25

 

A Day In The Neighborhood

 

Day 32 ~ SE-32-25

Surf's UP!

 

Day 31 ~ SE-31-25

A Day At The Beach

I have been getting ready for our next live art class session here at Sandarosa Studio. As per my students' requests, we will be doing whimsical scenes, similar to what we did last year. You can see what we did in last year's class here: https://www.sandysandyfineart.com/2024-live-session-5.html

Day 30 ~ SE-30-25

Draw, Refine, Repeat

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, 

it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." 

~ Michelangelo

  One of many sketches I did for last weekend's "Paint Your Pony" Playshop here ... 

"There is always more to be found by exploring the same subject again and again." ~ Dion Archibald

Forget Inspiration

“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. 

Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. 

Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. 

Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.” 
~ Octavia E. Butler

 

I decided to do an easier option design for people who would rather not do the full body pose.

I am down in Delaware today doing my Workshop at the Rehobath Art League, so I hope I get a few moments to soak in some fresh sea air!

Happy Creating My Friends!

X ♥  O

 

An Increase In Power

“That which we persist in doing 
becomes easier to do, not that the nature 
of the thing has changed, but that 
our power to do has increased.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My model today was my little Misty from Chincoteague Breyer Horse.
 

I had an idea to use her in the theme for my next Watercolor on Yupo Studio Workshop here
on July 23rd. Her head seemed a bit large, so I used some artistic license there.
 

 

I refined the composition a bit and drew this to fit an 11 x 14" mat. It looks like a coloring book page right now. I will tweak the drawing a little, do a value painting and full color version

before I finalize the design for the workshop. I love all of the planning, drawing, painting shopping,

cooking and prep work that goes into every class and workshop I teach here.

Happy Creating My Friends!

X ♥  O

 

April 5th Drawing Workshop

I held a drawing workshop here yesterday. We covered a lot of ground! We did gestures, blind contours, and pencil and wash drawings. Students learn how to better control the tricky watercolor medium. I lectured on one and two point perspective. We discussed design and values and even had a session on figures. All in all, I think the students left here enthused and inspired with lots of material to study and work on until the next workshop materializes. Here is one drawing from each student. I'm very happy with the work! See one of my workshop demo sketches today on my Spirit Art Blog.

Elephants Are Fun To Sketch

Thursday, February 26, 2009 - Frustration Remedy Sketches Ahh, Elephants!

From my Spirit Art Blog: "Seems like every simple task this week has turned into a major ordeal. Staying positive is hard when you keep banging your head against the wall. Putting all fragmented projects aside, I decided to do some therapeutic sketching to adjust my attitude. While I was drawing from photos posted online by my friend, Sally Vennel, simultaneously another FB friend, Abbey Brooke, IM'd me from Kenya. We chatted about elephants and cheetahs. I think my remedy is starting to work! Switching to something you love in situations like this can calm your nerves and heal your heart." Here's steps 1 and 2 of my sketching technique.



Thursday, March 5, 2009 - Finished Elephant Sketches

I'm gearing up for a drawing and watercolor workshop here on Saturday and Sunday. Part of what I will be covering is drawing techniques, including this pencil and watercolor approach. I drew and painted these elephants with permission from my photographer friend, Sally Vennel. Taken on one of her many trips to Africa, these particular elephants live in Botswana. Find links to all my sites on www.sandysandy.com.

Workshop A Big Success

"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." ~ Jim Rohn

Sept. 12 - 14th, 2008 WORKSHOP - Day One

WARM UP EXERCISE
I started today's lessons with a warm up exercise I came up with at the spur of the moment. Holding the pencil like a wand, I encouraged students to use their whole arm and wrist while making various scribbles on their paper. Everyone seemed to agree that this helped them to loosen up for the sketching to follow.



TWO MINUTE GESTURES
I have some wood bird carvings and decided to use them as models for our two minute gesture sketches. After the allotted time was up, each person turned their bird clockwise a quarter of a turn. Each participant did a dozen sketches, three birds, four views each.

BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING
This is a wonderful exercise that I haven't done in a long time. None of the students had ever done a blind contour. This teaches hand eye coordination. You can't look down at your paper while you are drawing. You must only look at the subject while the pencil is moving. This trains you to caress the object with your eyes. After this exercise, students followed along with handouts as we went on to drawing a hummingbird from my Six Steps to Sensational Sketches Demo.



MONOTONE VALUE PAINTING
After lunch break, we did a value painting of a lighthouse. I explained WET-IN-WET techniques on painting skies, grass, water and buildings. Here is my demo painting.

SEE DAYS TWO AND THREE ON MY 9/13/08 AND 9/14/08 WEB LOG POSTS.

"If you get into the habit of sketching, you'll never be bored."
~ Sandy Sandy

Class Project Preparation

Tomorrow four artists are coming to my studio for an art class. Today I've been busy preparing the lessons I wish to present. I'm hoping to guide them through two paintings in the two hour session, one in gray values and a second in color.

My next workshop, Sept. 12th - 14th is filled! Spaces are still available for the Sept. 20th -21st Workshop. Click on this banner to get more information.