An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

This is the first, wildest, wisest thing I know: the soul exists...it is built entirely out of attentiveness.

Sunday, March 31, 2019

The last prompt

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The last prompt: let your pencil randomly hit a letter and then think of something that starts with that letter.  T= Toast.  Perfect. ...

Four small sketches

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This little sketch in my Stillman & Birns notebook is from a visit to friends Bill and Theresa.  They are HUGE bird lovers and I ske...
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Saturday, March 30, 2019

Prompt 30: Collections

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Of course I draw collections all the time.   So this prompt actually was harder because I went blank for a bit. I mean I drew clocks an...
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Friday, March 29, 2019

Prompt 28 and 29

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This prompt is really a little different than MY interpretation.   By the time you get to the 28th prompt you begin to makes your own...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Prompt #27 plus studio organizing

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The prompt yesterday was to draw a layout of a room.  I ended up thinking about the house I grew up in.  I ended up posting it on my FB...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Prompt: 26 Plus a bonus

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So starting with the bonus...I completed the last two sections of this sketch page today with the sketch gang next door at friend Pete...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Challenge #24 and #25

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Prompt: Put things that make you smile on a shelf. Prompt: a recipe
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Prompts 20, 21, 22 and 23

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Prompt: Show something you think is perfect. Prompt:  Put "soup" in a glass soup pot and describe. Draw an imag...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Prompt 17, 18 and 19

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Of course, this prompt involved  mixing so many greens that I ran out of room and had to hand some leaves 3-D in the book!   Th...
Saturday, March 16, 2019

Prompt 16 and my March Littles

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The prompt for March 16 was to create two triadic bits and two split complimentary bits.  The instructions were to divide page into 4 a...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Prompt #15 and a side sketch on "waiting"

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The prompt for this was to think of yourself as an "illustrator" for a day.  Look through a magazine and consider illustrat...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Prompt # 13 and 14

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The prompt, obviously, is to chart some of the blues that you own...mostly in watercolor but I added 4 colored pencil blues as well.  I...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Prompt 11 and 12 for the Face Book Challenge

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The prompt was simply "mailbox" this time but I found myself interested in all the mailboxes I've ever had.  But I'd ...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

March Prompts for Day 9 and 10

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My accordion book is beginning to look a bit busier these days with the first 10 days of the March challenge completed.  Day #9 and Day...
Saturday, March 9, 2019

The March Madness Prompt Challenge

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These two are done in my accordion folding sketchbook dedicated to the online Face Book Sketchers group for the month of the March....
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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Sketch Books on a Theme

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This is from my miscellaneous  Stillman  & Birns 5.5 x 7 notebook. This journal is slightly smaller than the one above.  ...
Saturday, March 2, 2019

Sketching in Brownwood

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We were at Brownwood, one of the town squares in The Villages, this morning for a few hours.  I had a lot of fun sketching and then w...
Friday, March 1, 2019

March Madness Challenge

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I finished my page called "Life in General" and it took me through much of February...although I skip around and sketch in as ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Sketch while waiting...

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Just waiting for our order on Sunday  after church at Jeannie's Place...a nice little restaurant near Lake Eustis.   This was hangi...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Shoes and Gouache

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This is the  facing page for the first one on shoes.  I am not sure why I seem to feel the need to sketch them so large.  It just happe...
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Ginny Stiles
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
I live in Madison, Wisconsin and summer for a few months in Lac du Flambeau, WI. I teach watercolor, mixed media and Zentangle classes.
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