Toadhollowstudio.com Website Review

Toad Hollow Studio – drawing lessons and art by C. Rosinski. Menu are so many gorgeous and royalty free rose photos online, that I thought I should consider using someone else’s photo to draw from. I talked about this idea with my husband who said he admired the character of my mind for asking this question of myself. He didn’t have any ideas to help me out, but it was nice to be admired. rose. And there will always be someone else’s pretty photo of a rose, or whatever subject I’m working with, to lure me away from my My work is to draw the things in my own life that make my heart happy to draw them. If you’re an artist, you probably already know that it takes courage to do this regularly. So, I shook off the fear that I’m not good enough to accomplish this thing and decided to do it once again. (You may now picture me striding resolutely down a hill with bagpipe music filling the air.) However, I’m not in the least bit a purist when it comes to my own photos. The photos are just references for the image I have in mind, so I’ll cut them up, leave parts out, merge them, or do whatever it takes to create a reference for the drawing I want to make. I wanted to re-draw parts of this rose, and to do that I had to see where the light and dark values fell, so I made a very light value sketch on Arches hotpress, my go to drawing paper, with a B pencil. The B pencil will erase easily with my kneaded eraser and won’t I wanted to have a more round looking rose, and I think I accomplished that. While I was at it, I moved the center downwards and trimmed back The rose’s form came quickly while hatching, and moving the values around. I’m not quite sure of the outer petal shaping yet, but I I’m aware of something happening with this drawing that’s different than usual. There’s a lot more energy, and more freedom to I’m using a 2B pencil for the darkest shadows, a B for the mid values and an HB for the lightest. I’m using my stiff blending brush