Category: Daily Photo

The birds of Peru

Long-tailed Mockingbird, originally uploaded by Gavatron. So, Heather and I are officially back from our three-week trip to Peru. Heath is starting classes this week and I started lecturing last Friday. In the meantime, I’m keeping busy by going through the 1600-odd photographs that I took while away. Here’s one. This is a Long-tailed Mockingbird […]

Being (art)schooled: Week#8: Chalk pastel still life

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 […]

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, […]

Being (art)schooled #3: Volume and Depth through Charcoal

Week #3, originally uploaded by Gavatron. Another Thursday night, another drawing lesson. This week we had another still-life to complete, after a little demo on creating volume and depth. Nice to get the refresher and spend some more time actually looking at how shadows are cast and light is reflected on different objects. This work […]