Friday, January 24, 2025

I Drew a Thing

 Having cleaned my pens, yesterday, I decided it was time to start DRAWING!

(well... technically, I decided it was time to start drawing again BEFORE I cleaned the pens... that is WHY I cleaned the pens!)

It being Thursday, I thought I would start with the Thursday Portrait Challenge by Studio Tea Break on Bluesky. I had participated in these when I used to have a Twitter account. Studio Tea Break eventually moved to Bluesky, so... 

This week's Challenge was ‘The Princess’ (Painting of a Shawi Berber woman from Algeria), painted by Frederick Arthur Bridgman sometime between 1870 to 1878. 

This is my take on it. It's a start... 

I like the Thursday Portrait Challenge. It's like the time-honoured tradition of Painting from the Masters - copying the works of those who've gone before to learn their techniques through the process of DOING them. I guess this isn't exactly the same thing, because I very definitely did not do this with oil paints! 

Here is the original... 

Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Princess (1870) - borrowed from Wikimedia Commons: 

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Arthur_Bridgman_-_The_Princess_%281870%29.jpg


Studio Tea Break can be found here:

https://bsky.app/profile/studioteabreak.bsky.social


My stuff on Bluesky can be found here:

https://bsky.app/profile/timinsaskatoon.bsky.social


I have previously posted on this blog a number of the Portrait Challenges I did through 2022 here:

Virtual Studio - Thursday Portrait Challenges


Thursday, January 23, 2025

Welp...

It has been almost a year since I posted anything here... 

It has been almost as long since I even drew ANYTHING!?

I cleaned my pens today.

Lets see where that takes us... 

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Waiting...

I should clarify, this has nothing to do with the previous post. Just a regular waiting room for a regular appointment!

Of all the places I have to wait for appointments of people, this is my favourite. It is usually very quite and comfortable... (Today the radio was on and I had to listen to commercial radio...) 

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Monday, 19 February 2024

 Royal University Hospital ER

My mom is in hospital. She hasn't had a great year. It's a long story...

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Cory the Cross-Country Corythosaurus

 Dinovember Day Nine

Cory the Cross-Country Corythosaurus (on a Concorde!) 

27cm x 35cm (~11"x14")

Acrylic Ink on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper

Okay this one it up so early because I actually did it the other day... I thought I might try and get it to my pal Cory for his birthday, which is today... alas... I did not mail it off, so... he will have to wait until Xmas!

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Mike the Messenger Maiasaura

 Dinovember Day Eight

Mike the Messenger Maiasaura

35cm x 27 cm (~14" x 11")

Acrylic Ink on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper

Tried to go a little faster and looser on this one. I kind of like it... 

Thandi the Track Tyrannosaurus

 Dinovember Day Seven (which I didn't get to posting yesterday) 

Thandi the Track Tyrannosaurus 

35cm x 27 cm (~14" x 11")

Acrylic Ink on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper