“I can’t draw”

Recently I spent some time at a local hospital demonstrating drawing and encouraging others to pick up a pen or pencil…

Seeing Value

Did you make a value scale? See last week’s post for how to do it if you haven’t already. It’s…

Value in a drawing means the range of tones from dark to light, essentially from black to white. Adding value to a…

One of the best ways to learn is to ask questions. Because drawing is an examination of a subject, as I draw…

I grew up in a small New England town. It was idyllic except for the fact there was no art…

I’ve been talking about lines for a bit now, but there’s still so much to say. Lines, or as some…

One of the best things a budding sketcher can do is to draw with other people. By making a date to…

While I don’t pretend to be an expert on human relationships, I do have a little experience with visual relationships.…

Whether you are drawing with pens, pencils or even charcoal, lines are the building blocks of your drawings. A…

Since I wrote about drawing subjects last week, I decided this would be a good time to add my first book…