Week 8: Chalk pastel still life, originally uploaded by Gavatron. This week was another still life and took all evening (so three hours) to complete. I’m pleased with how it turned out. I did notice how everything is stretched out (even though we did an underdrawing); I think this has to do with the fact […]
Author: Gavan
Being (art)schooled: Week#7: Life drawing, take two
This week was time to do some more life-drawing. A new model and new way of drawing: out is the gesture approach and in is creating depth and form through shading. This meant that we were drawing with the side of the conte, which was a challenge and meant that I wasn’t as precise with […]
Mulberry leaves
Mulberry leaves, originally uploaded by Gavatron. A view of green leaves and snow along Philosopher’s Walk.
Done(-ish).
Today, at approximately 12:00 pm EST I successfully defended my last comprehensive (which is titled Confluences in the streams of birding, technology and animal studies and which I’ll need to upload & add to my academic writings). This is BIG news for a couple of reasons. The first is that I’ve struggled through the whole […]
Featured!
Featured!, originally uploaded by Gavatron. Flickr has just launched its Places feature (which is very cool), and so I decided to have a poke around. Looking up the Yukon Territory, much to my surprise, up pops me as one of the “Featured Photographers.” Too Cool. If you haven’t seen my Yukon & Alaska photos yet, […]
Leslie Street Spit
Beachcombers, originally uploaded by Gavatron.
“Wort to rule”
An unfortunate typo has us making beer to the letter of the recipe.
Testing footnotes
I just installed a plugin ((The plugin is WP-Footnotes)) that allows me to create footnotes in posts. Just testing the thing out here.
Being (art)schooled: Week#6: Life & gesture drawing
OK, so I’ve got a number of pieces from this week. Let me just start by saying that I loved this week’s work. Loved it. As you can tell, we had a model and we were doing life drawing. It was a real additive class. Starting with the gesture pieces (the triptych you can see […]
Being (art)schooled #5: Texture
Week #5, originally uploaded by Gavatron. This week was all about texture. The bottom piece of work was closest to what we were supposed to be doing, but its the one that I like the least. The top piece is actually where I was drying my brush before working, with an india ink gesture still […]