Archive from April, 2008
Apr 19, 2008 - Shows & Events    No Comments

WVAL Spring Show

Lambent won first place in its category, Pastel/Colored Pencil, at the Wyoming Valley Art League Spring 2008 Member’s Show. There was a great turnout on Friday for the show at the Midtown Gallery in Wilkes-Barre.

Apr 9, 2008 - Colored Pencil    No Comments

Wedding Cameo

Derwent Coloursoft, Derwent Signature, and Prismacolor colored pencil on green Pastelbord, 5″W x 7″H. Completed 2008.

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Apr 8, 2008 - Gestures    No Comments

Life Drawing 4-8

2 minute conte crayon on sketch paper, followed by 60 minute Derwent drawing pencils on toned paper:
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Apr 6, 2008 - Musings    No Comments

The Woes of the Web – Epilogue

After about a week, I’ve got my website restored to roughly what it was before my “err, didn’t mean to delete that” incident.  I took the opportunity to add a few improvements.  You’ll notice some visual tweaks such as frames around images, and a snazzy tag cloud at the bottom (click a keyword to see all related posts – for instance, all artwork done on blue colourfix paper).  Now that it’s been a week since the latest WordPress upgrade, programmers have also released updates for many of the broken features (“plugins”).  In particular, one plugin allows me to embed Flickr hosted images into any post or page as a Flash gallery.  If you look at my header navigation menu, you’ll see ‘Photography’ and ‘Paper’ links – click one to see an example. A subtle implication of this is that many of my images are now hosted on Flickr – so if I accidently delete a folder in my website, they still exist.

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Apr 1, 2008 - Gestures    2 Comments

Life Drawing – Archives

When my website crashed, I lost the Gestures section, which had a nice weekly post of my life drawings. I re-photographed a few of my favorites and compiled them below as an archive. I’ll add a second archive once I figure out where I squirreled away my filled tablet from last year.

Edit: Found my filled tablet! I’ve added some new images below.

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Apr 1, 2008 - Gestures    No Comments

Life Drawing 4-1

Today we had a portrait model, without our usual 2 minute gesture warm up – just went right into the portrait:

~35 minutes sanguine drawing pencil on toned paper