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may art be with you
Damn, it’s basically spring and I’m itching to do some sketching or painting or maybe all of it all at once and—it occurs to me that, yeah, far from being powerless to achieve all this I don’t really need any extra motivation to make something spicy but it never hurts, either. Last October I gave
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pano perfect
Describe the best picture you took in 2025. I’ve been trying to take the elusively perfect panorama picture since about a week after I got my first digital camera. My success has varied. A few years ago the iPhone added the method that I use to this day, which if you’re sitting there reading this
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urban sketch, five
I have a mere three sketches left in this October (sub)urban sketching challenge I set for myself. Good thing, too. The weather is starting to become a factor to my outdoor sketching efforts. The one rule that I set for my October month of daily drawing was that they were not just doodles of the
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panoramic, three: oculus graffiti
There is this strange place literally walking distance from my house. The graffiti tunnel, more formally known as The Oculus. I say “walking distance” though it did take me over an hour to walk there and an hour to walk home—plus I spent time there taking photos, sketching, making a video and then stopping for
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urban sketch, four
I’m nearly three-quarters of the way through my October sketching challenge as I write this and I have yet to miss a day. Two things have emerged from that effort: First, I think my drawing has legitimately improved. Doing anything daily is inevitably going to contribute to the effort of general practice and growth, but