A Nice Note And Drawing Everyday Update

I had a nice email this morning from Maurice Scheetz. He wrote;"Greetings Sandy Sandy, I am trying to return to the earlier joy of the "Artist Way" and perspective - to re-establish and re-order the "artist studio" that used to give me so much comfort. A birder/ walker/ friend that I met on wooded trail and I - have just begun to meet at my place - my excuse to re-new my art - to draw and paint together. So I found a copy of your Sensational Sketches in Six Simple Steps in a notebook of mine and that led me back to your web site and thus to this note. On our next meet-up, we plan to use this demo of yours as a jumping off point. Please subscribe me to more!"

Today's photo is of two of the senior students from my studio drawing classes that I did in Florida the week before last. We all did the Hummingbird Demo that Maurice is referring to. (And, I have been informed that the course was a huge hit with all the students.) :-D

You can print out your own copy of my step-by-step demo here. Only 5 weeks until Drawing Everyday starts up again folks!

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.