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on November 28, 2007 at 7:40 pm | Reply Kate (Cathy) Johnson

What a wonderful idea! I love your sketches…
on February 23, 2008 at 2:33 pm | Reply Dan Killebrew

Originally from OK, I feel “kin” to your sketches. As an architect, I carry the typical yellow trace, markers, laptop, and PDA. But also stuffed in my bag is a moleskine, and some fat cretacolor leadholders for sketching. I get the same “breath of fresh air” feeling from seeing your sketches as I do from doing my own. — thanks for sharing.
on May 22, 2008 at 11:36 pm | Reply Sharon Griffith

I’m trying to become a sketcher instead of a painter and just when I think I’ve got the looseness and “sketchiness” I get on someone’s website and see what seems like finished paintings albeit they are sometimes in pencil or pen. Evidently the accepted range is huge!!
on May 23, 2008 at 6:36 am | Reply zeladoniac

True, Sharon, the accepted range is huge, and that’s good. There’s a difference between a sketch and a finished drawing. Something that’s done quickly and on the spot would be a sketch and probably have that looseness you mention. A finished drawing can be a tightly rendered graphite piece that looks like a painting in tones of gray.The work I have up here ranges from very quick loose sketching to more “finished” pieces, but all of them are done in the field, plein air, within an hour or so. Are they drawings or sketches? You’ll have to be the judge!
on May 27, 2008 at 10:38 pm | Reply Sharon Griffith

I look at “sketches” I’ve done that are what I want and you are so right, they are done in live, quickly and in the moment. If I try to do one from a photograph like I read about others doing, it doesn’t work for me. Either it’s all live or maybe I’ll do some old photos only time myself to a given amount of minutes, like life drawing!
on December 19, 2009 at 2:02 pm | Reply robin macy white dog wood.

My dream is to find an artist in resident grant and have you be the first recipient and then have you come spend some time up here across the Kansas border and document the little arb in all her seasonal glory. You are amazing.
on December 19, 2009 at 2:19 pm | Reply zeladoniac

Robin, if you do I’ll be right there:-) Your little arb is glorious no matter what the season.