web site

However all this is supposed to lead up to a new web site I found called painting-course.com taught by an American teacher, teaching abroad his name is Jeremiah Pollichek (if I spelled his last name right). His lessons seem simple, to practice is to draw anything, draw everything. He requires his students to find a goal and path to what type of art they are interested in and to find an artist to study.



Look to the greats like Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Caravaggio e.t.c, and study their lives and actually copy their work if you can, (but don't try to sell it as your own.) Jeremiah also suggest to his students to create and essay about the artist you've chosen and to also create a blog to discuss what you've learned and show your work.


  That is where I got this idea to blog my own art history. (thanks teach).

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!1


HAVE A SAFE AND BLESSED HOLIDAY!!!

draw anything, paint anything

There is this saying I've heard a while back and on occasion hear it now and again. "Draw anything, paint anything." It is advice I've given my two nieces who said that they wanted to draw like I do but don't know what to draw. One of my nieces used to challenge me because she didn't believe that I could draw, she and my dad thought the drawings I did were from coloring books instead but I showed her and my mom told my dad that I was the one who drew that picture. I took those as compliments I've always wanted to work for the Mouse named Mickey.






The picture my niece challenged me draw.





　
Of course they were toddlers, and in elementary school at the time, so by now their interests have changed. However I do have 3 more who are interested in drawing.

                   






                   HAPPY HALLOWEEN

a drawing class

However, I am always looking for ways to improve my drawings and paintings. I took a class for basic drawing at the University of New Mexico local branch but some how I felt robbed. I could not understand a class where the teacher set out an assignment and then praised anyone who ignored the assignment. One example was he set out the typical cow skull head set up small cactus plants around it and added a cowboy hat and said try and draw this, the praised a woman in the class for drawing a fox instead. The other two examples was having us all draw a self portrait over the holiday weekend and the same lady came in with a drawing of her dog, or having us draw a metamorphosis drawing and some student coming in with a landscape of the mountain creek.



Had I known that it was a free for all class I would have indulged although I don't think it applied to everyone.

photos

I would like to insert photos of my work, so I click on the button here and upload but for some reason it sits and takes for ever to upload it, and yes I have high speed internet but it still does nothing.  So sorry I'll keep trying.

How I started

A long time ago, I taught myself how to draw and how to paint. I did a lot of stick figures and lopsided houses and trees like those that everyone else does in the beginning. Then eventually I tried my hand at those three characters from that free test offered in most magazines. The Pirate, turtle and teddy bear offered by the Art institute. I managed to draw them pretty well so I started to buy books like the Walter Fosters and others to help me draw.

For some strange reason, to me anyway, I also tried my hand at drawing people, took fashion magazine glossy photos, and practiced on the models. Well, I figured I could not afford to pay a real model to sit for me so I searched for a face that appealed to me and ripped out the photo. To me the paint was like the pastels or markers just to add color.