August 13, 2023 — This will be my last blog entry. Don’t worry, it’s not a sad story. Why I started this blog. I wrote the first entry in this blog on October 10, 2020, four months after I found a new love for drawing after a 26 year hiatus. My purpose was to document, in full, the path…

Week of July 17, 2023 — Retrospective It was fun to try drawing perfect ellipses freehand. I haven’t done that in a long time. Somehow I got a lot more accurate at it, even though I haven’t really practiced that skill for over a year. Work

Week of July 10, 2023 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective This week it was back to basic drawing fundamentals. Specifically, I worked on proportional drawing. It feels like starting over at the beginning again, but every time I start over, I learn 1) how to improve the technique…

Week of July 3, 2023 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective I’m finished with block 1 (of 4) of the Evolve program. In some ways I’ve learned a lot and gotten better at painting, but I really haven’t progressed as far as I thought I would. The feed back…

Week of June 26, 2023 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective -/- Log

Week of June 19, 2023 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective I’m still really enjoying the teaching style of the Evolve program. Painting is taught in such a simple yet logical way that I haven’t seen anywhere else. …

Week of June 12, 2023 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective I found new motivation this week with traditional oil painting and the Evolve Artist program. I would have done more work, but you have to do a painting in one sitting before it dries so it can be…

Week of June 5, 2023 — Retrospective I haven’t posted in a while, and it’s not from lack of time. It’s because I haven’t been doing any art. I got divorced at the end of March and for the last couple months I had to spend a lot of time selling my house and moving to a…

Week of May 8, 2023 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective I did a few traditional gouache paintings this week. I had the urge to oil paint, but all my materials are in a different state right now because I’m in the middle of moving. …