Socrates dialogues

It's true, I'm an addict. I'm addicted to swapping art and small pieces of artwork with my internet friends. Hi, my name is Sox...

Here are the pages I painted yesterday: Aren't these colors completely yummy? Let's see yours now!

I've been working on a little book this afternoon. I've realized that I'm either not following Carla's instructions for app...

Supply List: 10-20 pieces of junk mail (envelopes, unopened credit card offers, Pizza Hut flyers etc.) brushes, about 1/2" wide ...

Just in time for spring, this next lesson requires a flower. It is best to pick a flower that has buds as well as the open flower, and leave...

I mentioned on the Yahoo group this morning that using a viewfinder and a grid for drawing is not cheating, and has been used for professio...

Do you have your viewfinder built yet? A piece of overhead transparency or plexiglass that you have attached to some cardboard to make it st...

This next step is another form of contour drawing, but this time, you will look at your drawing. It is common practice to choose a pair of s...

Yes, pure contour drawing is HARD. Not so much in the doing, but in the letting go. Letting the left brain go. We have been educated and tra...

Oh, no, please not contour drawings!!!! Arggggh, terrifying, ugly contour drawings. Ok, so some of you don't know what they are. What th...

In this lesson, we are going to make a viewfinder. But first, I'd like to tell you a story. I'm sure you know what a viewfinder look...

Here comes compliment of Vicki Holdwick, who posted it on her blog. This is a little diversion, to take your right brain on a little journey...

In the workbook, Betty Edwards offers 3 more drawings that you can choose from for your upside down exercise. I reproduce them here, so that...

Today, we start the Right brain part of the course. Yeah!!!! It`s the most fun!!!! You will have read in your book all the discussions about...

My doubting students wanted to see a portrait that I have done.... Which is not fair to them, since I have already taken the course. It was ...

The second step to the progression of this class is to make a portrait of yourself. WHAT!!!! Forget it, I`m not doing a portrait. No, no, no...

To do this class, or to do any sort of drawing, you don't really need that many pencils. They come in different hardness, from H to B. H...

I was reading the 83' version last night. She states herself that she's changed the order of the chapters, and developed the last on...