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I'm impressed too, Grapes! Your painting looks so dramatic - as if the statue is really out in the sun.

Thanks for your kind words - I am just following along and cannot take any credit for the choices. That textured paper is very soft and...

Welcome to the Scavenger Hunts from Life. The Hunts were started in 2006 by Jamie Williams Grossman as a way to practice with prompts...

Wow! People do join and then decide to still lurk, or come and go as time permits. Such is forum life. Congrats to Ayin and Hannah...

Great news. To me, it still feels intimate and friendly here.

A YT watercolor (Emily Olson) artist recently posted sketchbook art inspired by the ink art of Nicholas Sanchez. I was really blown away...

Wonderful! There's nothing easy about painting shiny metallic things, and you've made this glow. I love it!

Terri, thanks! Wanted to practice metal.

A the start of the year, I decided to try my hand at drawing a still life study without the use of an under sketch. it was a really fun...

This is a daily painting from earlier this year. My model is a chess piece and it imitates "El Giraldillo" which is standing on the top...

Joy, beautiful work & lovely birds! 🐦

These are from Tom Shepherd's Simply Paint Birds book. He paints in a loose style and has some simple steps for a few dozen different...

Since I was getting "parsing response failed" message, I am uploading the last few to a reply.

This is about 11 x 7, on Hahnemühle Collection, 140 CP. As usual, I fiddled for hours (yeah, hours) with the features. The only reason I...

16th Ave E - oil and ink on (very) cheap 12"x12" stretched canvas This was an experiment painting on a $1 canvas without adding more...