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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Trying new things





I've been working portrait approaches in my mind's eye to life-drawing-referral-guy, and decided to take one out for a walk at Another Of The Infinite Branches Of The Coffee Megapolis.

The colors look a bit weak, so please click for a larger view. It may be I haven't figured out how to best scan these yet.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm not certain what you're doing but I enjoyed these (and I have been popping in, but had to reinstall my OS over the past couple of days)

Ernesto said...

I loved them. You keep surprising me!

am said...

Thanks for visiting my blog yesterday. It is vitalizing to see your drawings and photographs which manifest so much creative energy. Funny coincidence . . . an old friend sent me some colored pencils as a holiday gift. What better encouragement from her, and from you, to go out and do some drawing. I am looking forward to exploring all the blogs you mentioned in "Where I wander."

Appreciated the December 26 posting about "the relationship/conversation between photography and drawing/painting." Do you know of the blog by Loren Webster, "In A Dark Time," where there is an ongoing conversation between photography and poetry?

franhilz said...

great work, Lori... once somebody suggested me a job as a jury artist, but I was too shy for that... today I would accept that without hesitation... if you take experience drawing faces and postures from life can think about something like that!

Lori, I am posting some wall paintings in my personal Flickr, maybe you are interested to watch them... I put explanations in spanish and english, all my friends and family from Israel can read english, then hebrew is not there:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frank-minimalia/

they are not art photos, I wanted only to show places.

Lori Witzel said...

Hey everyone -- thanks for the feedback and support!

Ref: Went and got myself some watercolor-colored pencils, wanting to see if I could keep a fresh, energy-vibrant approach to sketching while using color...auspicious beginnings, but more will need to be done.

Ernesto: Kewl! I like being surprising, in a good way!

AM: Welcome -- and we do have quite a motely crew here in the sidebar, I think you'll grin at the range of blog-friends who gather. Thanks tons for the tip about Loren -- will dig deeper, but looks very very interesting/resonant.

Frank: I will for sure go by your Flcikr site, and it seems like it would be fun to be a courtroom artist -- stressful fun, but fun!

Now, back to work...

Belinha Fernandes said...

Lovely sketches!!!Your cake is half gone!!!!!:-)Tastefull!! There's a photo of it in palavras-cruzadas!:-)

Belinha Fernandes said...

:-) I can understand my friend's worry. But I have a different view.To be a stranger is not necessarily a bad thing.In fact some of the people who helped me in these past two years hardly knew me and I hardly knew them too.That help was based in mutual trust.Before that some people I considered to know well caused me a great deal of trouble.There's this general distrust clima about persons we meet on the Internet.There's some reason on it but we can not be crazy about it. I had no reason not to trust your cake!!!!!!:-)But I was worried...I was worried that someone ate it on the way!!!

polona said...

interesting approach! i really enjoyed these coloured sketches :)

Cuchulainn said...

Mery Christmas and happy new year, better late than never. I can´t say i like these new sketches i prefer the photos, but they're realy good, a diferent angle

Pedro

Thomas Gada said...

I honestly never thought of quick sketches like this in color pencil. Another great idea.