Recent content by jmfletch

Off topic as not from life but is currently my art life. Going for a soft “End of Day” golden hour atmosphere either footsteps heading out Is a Work In Progress (WIP) comments and criticisms welcome

Happy Birthday Ai! A day late but wishes still there. Joan - love the background tree effect on Holbrook Diner. Keep looking at your mobile home sketch and thinking substitute palm trees for evergreens and it could be SWFL. On the dinosaur the only word that keeps coming to mind is WOW. The...

Hi all. PT tomorrow and hoping to comment on all the great work I been lurking at. The little time left for art has been on a cp drawing I am doing for a friend. Not from life obviously. Hard to do anything in cp from life unless it’s a quick still life. Fletch

Jo - Love the dgi. It has an illustration quality to it. Tuesday and Thursday are Sharon’s standing appointments. This week is a full docket with MD appointments on Monday and Friday as well. Joan - Great detail in the pizza sketch and of course beautifully proportioned people. #1 underneath -...

Joan - concur with the others the shadows in the beach fence sketch are beautifully done. Urban Sketchers colors are terrific especially for chel 'eap set you never used! Would never have guessed those two paintings were not with your regular palette. The grasses in the no parking painting...

Thanks to all for kind supportive comments. Joan - am pretty sure when you export to .jpg that collapse the layers in that new version but original will stay layered. But to merge layers in your drawing I know 2 ways 1) pinch the layer names together 2) tap on layer name get menu and tap merge...

Here is my 3x5 #4 emblem - USN Chief Petty Officer (CPO) insignia. Graphite in 3x5 sketchbook. Proportions are off but I drew. Keep sketching and learning Fletch

Jade - Bob is handsome and it looks like is left paw is out to look at the next picture. Jo - I like Terra Cotta. Muddy or otherwise. The watercolor bumps look like great shading. Nice pen work. Sorry you missed your day out. Day out sounds l8ke an interesting concept. 😎 Joan - love your...

Pine Cone - Excellent work! But still recovering and sitting in cold getting wet is not the brightest move. Have to tell you when I look at you supplies photo I thought that was a photo of the birds. Then I noticed how perfectly the drawing matched the ‘photol’ and laughed. I think the...

Ai, I thought we may have found another cp artist. 🥲 We know she has art in her blood. #3 Kazoo - Sub mouthpiece from a broken plastic recorder. Multiple grades of graphite in Strathmore Sketchbook. Keep sketching and learning Fletch

Ai - who was the instructor you chose? If Miss Iris looks for more info Gemma Chambers has lots of good post on cp on You.tube. Also Phil Davies. I took his course online DrawAwesome a few years ago. Joan - We are getting back to proper Florida weather but has almost a week where daytime...

Joan - Great way to enjoy snow In a painting.

Had one of those ah-ha moments when the light comes on. I have commented many times on color adding life to a picture. Today I was read a book on color pencil and they focused color choice on choosing the right temperature. Think that while I realized graphite can imply color variation thru...

Jo - Good find on ironwork and clever use of digital. I rarely carry drawing material with me however always have my iPad but no Apple Pencil and drawing with finger never seems to occur to me. Four Roses. Have not heard that in decades. Was a common whiskey growing up but do not hear it...

Ours only have a very thin red and very thin blue line but one i grabbed as a single pale ugly muted green. The label on the vermouth reminded me of some logo (red circle with blue bar across)