An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

playing in the class...bottom right is made with cling wrap. The bottom two are on ceramic tile and the top two on Yupo Paper.   alcoh...

Zonked, Jalousie, Flukes My friend Maurine Rice is also doing the Challenge. She is doing two per tile where I am doing 3/tile.   I p...

Printemps, TunnelVizion, Toodles Each September, the Inktober gang publishes an official "list" of words that people sketch o...

Took down my paintings  at the Woodruff, WI show today.  I had 4 there.  Nothing sold this time.  But that's okay.  It was a fun sh...

This is  alcohol  inks (just playing in the studio) and getting ready for the workshop that will be on Wednesday. I haven't touched...

Yesterday's walk was sunny, windy and nippy.  I should have worn gloves.  Where did I put them?   I have been following the milkwe...

Giving portrait drawing a little try. The first one--not so good. The second--a little better. A proportional divider ...

You may have thought I'd abandoned my "littles".  Not so.  But I have been busy with my drawing class and other things so I...

The last homework lesson I  quickly  squeezed in this afternoon was labeled "free hand and  control  hand".   What the au...

This assignment was "draw a mechanical object".  Practice squinting.  Allow 30 minutes.  I am finding that in using graphite...

The theory that you can put your text book under your pillow at night and sleep on it and get to be a better drawer doesn't seem to work...

Dave is instructing the class about how to position a photographic reference for a study on tone...or value.   The lesson is ab...

Inktober, you may remember from years past, is the celebration of art involving ink for the 31 days of October.   There is a website de...

Walking the  Northwoods  roads in autumn...the changes are so apparent.  Although the leaves have not started to fall yet...I see "t...

Julie made us dinner tonight...roasted veggies and sausage.  Wow was that ever delicious! The broccoli was from her garden and the other ...

The Sketch and Painting group met at Red Pine Camp for Girls in Woodruff, WI this week.  What a lovely spot...VERY hilly and a little ch...

Some sketches come with natural stories attached.  Those are often special memories.  You can, I hope, read the the little bit that I wro...

A very lovely morning (and lunch) at Sandy Cashman's home on 4 acres in Manitowish Waters today.  Her bird feeders drew me in so I h...

Stoney Creek Garden Center is south of Minocqua, WI and is one of the most diverse and eclectic one I've come across.  I could pain...

A few sketches "on the fly" this past week during a pretty busy week filled with art shows, fashion shoes, brunches, etc.  Th...