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Review for One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media : “Beginning and experienced artists alike will find that this highly accessible book can boost motivation, strengthen discipline, or even jump-start creativity during a block.” – Library Journal, Oct. 2011 The Studio 1482 One Drawing A Day book is out, and I’m very proud of the finished creation. It features the work of myself and the other 7 members of Studio 1482. I selected work from out One Drawing a Day blog that I thought would be perfect to inspire readers, and then wrote an exercise that would be an extension of that illustration that they could do themselves. That’s the way to be influenced by art – not by copying, but by taking it as a point of departure!
Veronica Lawlor
NATHALIE RAMIREZ COMUNICACION VISUAL
*Hello all. I need to excuse myself for my language inconsistency, sadly I am a child of the spanglish generation and I tend to just go with the flow with whichever language that chooses to express itself through me. This time I will be tactful enough to translate, but I don't guarantee I will always do so.Christian Tribastone's Art Blog
So the original plan was to go to a couple of bookstores around the city and put prints of this sketch in the pages of as many copies of "The Art of Urban Sketching" as I could find. (Not an original idea, as fans of the Post Secret blog & books do this too with their anonymous confessions.) It turns out though that none of the bookstores actually had any copies on the shelves, so no-go on that idea. Instead I went back to the alley in Columbia Heights where I drew the original sketch and found some spots to give them away or hide them for people to find. I found a couple of windshields to drop the envelopes. Some that drove off before I got a picture of them, of course not without a few funny looks as they picked up what I left for them.
So we’re back from a few weeks of drawing in Havana. This was our second trip. The city remains a fascinating portrait of dystopia. It’s exuberant, ornate, ultimately over-reaching glory, now in slow motion collapse.
Citizen Sketcher
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I suppose some of you who have been following this blog for some time and who aren't interested in dinosaurs probably find these posts excruciating. Sorry, guys; there will be plenty more urban sketching posts, including some very soon. Meanwhile, I've been spending the last three months or so re-learning how to draw dinosaurs, and rediscovering the world of dinosaurs-- the research, the art, and the fans, thanks to the dinosaur blogosphere. Why do I say "rediscovering?"