Tag Archives: Sketching

May11

Creative Juice #93

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Wonderful articles that will leave you inspired.

Familiar faces in unexpected places.
It breaks my heart to see pianos left to die.
What if you had to escape from your home, and all you had were the clothes on your back, and a bedsheet?
The only way to improve a skill is to practice. That goes for free motion quilting, too.
What a neat way to make money for your kids’ school!
How to save stuff that inspires you.
Crazy good tangles.
Sketches of Sausalito.
Stunning pictorial quilts.
Design your own hand-lettering alphabet, or practice some of these.
No sense crying over spilled coffee.
Awwww, babies and pets.

Apr13

Creative Juice #89

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Just in time for weekend reading:

Embroidered portraits.
What can you learn from Mozart?
An interesting science connection to Van Gogh’s Starry Night.
Life advice from an old barber.
I can see me living in this houseboat.
I thought maybe it was the mushroom, but that’s not what the mantis was high on.
For anyone who shudders at the thought of public speaking.
How to get stuff done. I’m fascinated with this guy’s daily schedule.
Kyoto, Japan, seen through an artist’s eyes.
Gorgeous tangles.
Lovely sketchbook.
Take a bird’s eye tour of Shanghai.

Jan19

Creative Juice #77

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Art and photography and books and sketches and a workroom and music and travels and the aftermath.

Amazing photographs of murmurations.
Interesting reading list. I’ve only read five of these, but they were so good I’m tempted to read the rest.
Breathtaking, colorful glass art.
How to make a pop-up book for adults. Watch the second video.
Pretty artist/writer workspace.
A testimonial to the Blues.
The American Ancients, part II.
Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. One of my favorite bloggers, Narami, was without electricity for 130 days.
You don’t have to be young to benefit from this free ebook for young writers.
I love this artist’s sketches.
Silly pet photographs.
About the artist who painted The Great Wave.

Dec22

Creative Juice #73

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Some inspiring examples, and some silly stuff.

Merging wood and glass.
Masterful quilts.
An artist’s process.
End of the year reading list. Hurry up.
Lovely embroidery kits.
So it may really be true that you know stuff in your gut.
Berlin is on my bucket list. Is it on yours? Here are the best places to take fabulous photographs.
I love this artist. Sketches from Portugal.
Beautiful photographs of birds.
Quirky graffiti artist goes to Bethlehem.
Christmas photography project.
And one last silly Christmas-themed photo collection.

Dec1

Creative Juice #70

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Artistic ideas to inspire your weekend:

Need some gift ideas for artistic peeps?
Should you buy a watercolor book? Some considerations, as well as an interesting technique.
Fabulous variations on the Zentangle pattern W2.
Love to travel? Here, a blogger recalls some of her favorite trips.
The opening credits of the movie Muse, which I have not seen. A little creepier than what I usually include in the Juice, but certainly creative.
Intricate papercutting.
Award-winning photographs.
Beautiful glass.
The Miracle Mural Project.
Photographs of kids growing up in the Bronx.
What is ammonite?
Sketching surfers in Portugal.

Oct6

Creative Juice #62

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Thirteen articles to help you get your creativity on:

Cute little paintings.
A trip to the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
What playing the piano does for your brain.
Wildlife photography in black and white.
Beautiful waterfalls.
Lovely ceramics.
What happens when you let seniors wear costumes for ID picture day.
I love this artist’s sketches.
Award-winning quilts. (Click on the small images for enlargements.)
Instead of aimless surfing, read these websites to increase your knowledge.
Quotes to ponder.
Amazing paper sculptures by Nguyễn Hùng Cường.
Something you can do to exercise your creativity.

Oct5

Video of the Week #118: Tiger, Tiger

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Aug11

Creative Juice #54

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Twelve more sources of creative inspiration:

The guitar in art.
Beautiful modern quilts.
Man’s best friend.
The loveliest GIFs ever.
I always love seeing Suhita Shirodkar’s sketches.
When I was in high school in the late 1960s, I sometimes took the bus into New York City so I could wander through Central Park.
Unique, affordable travel accommodations.
Take a walk in the garden.
Prize-winning travel photos from the National Geographic contest.
A new application for the Five Second Rule.
Pixilation enters the world of sculpture.
Lessons learned at Uffizi Gallery.

Jul21

Creative Juice #51

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Your weekly dose of artistic inspiration:

Child photography.
I like to take a peek at quilt group meetings.
An intriguing reading list.
Less than eight months to go:
Nature illustrations by Kim Kurki.
This looks like a fun project.
Topiaries.
Where do creative ideas come from?
What to do with old mufflers.
A vicarious trip to Kauai.
Checking out art at the Whitney Museum, NYC.
Beautiful doors. If you want to see more, consider following Norm 2.0. He hosts a photography challenge called Thursday Doors that a lot of shutter bugs participate in.

Jul20

Guest Post: Easy People Sketching by Suhita Shirodkar

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Guest Post: Easy People Sketching by Suhita Shirodkar

A big ARHtistic License thank you to Suhita Shirodkar for the helpful advice in this awesome article! You can see more sketches by Suhita on Sketch Away: Travels with my sketchbook.

Sketch Away: Travels with my sketchbook

If you don’t sketch people often and don’t know where to start, go to a cafe. People sit pretty still, you don’t have to draw full figures, and most people are pretty busy looking at their phones or computers. Which makes it easy to hide at that corner table, to look closely (even stare), and to not worry too much about them disappearing before you finish drawing them.

Since I have two sessions of my People and Places workshop coming up this week, I thought I’d do some easy people sketching today. So I headed to the cafe at my local Barnes & Noble.

I usually start with a page or two of very quick gesture sketches.
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And then I played with layering some pastels over my brush pen gesture drawings.
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I kinda liked how I could do a very quick gesture capture, then go in with pastel and come back around a…

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