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Here is the latest progress. I’m learning how to use Affinity Photo at the same time as I’m piecing this one together. I keep sketching in my sketchbook, then snap a photo and upload it, cut, paste and adjust it into place. It’s forcing me to learn the program bit by bit as I have … Continue reading Slowly pulling together. . . . it is Slowvember after all.

So I got an unprecedented 3 hours to work yesterday and the ideas started flowing. I had been looking at Norman Rockwell’s April Fool’s Day paintings to see how to fit 50+ images in my drawing. And ater, yes more thumbnails, a composition began to emerge in all its scribbled glory. Then I tried my … Continue reading More thumbnails and a scribbled composition emerges

Ok, it’s not entirely true that I’m just really slow. It’s just that sometimes, after the rounds with kids and homework and housework and bed, there isn’t time (or brain power) for drawing. So now I’m back at it! My theme is like a day-in-the-life-of kindof thing – “An afternoon with homeschoolers”. It’s one I … Continue reading Slowvember, the slowest of the slow . . .

More ink wash practice. And Inktober ended just in time. My last pen died sketching this one. Oh well, on to the next challenge.