The customer allowed me to put color in the flag, a technique that I am very partial to. I added smoke, scanned it, and did the Photoshop clean-up.
As I was adding the grassy meadow to the foreground, I was thinking about the first time I drew the Hockett Meadow Ranger Station. It was part of a notecard set called “Backcountry Structures”.
Back in the olden days (in the 1980s), people used pens to handwrite notes in cursive, put them in envelopes, address them, LICK a stamp to put on the envelope, and then place into a real mailbox for people in other parts of the country to receive.
How quaint. Those were definitely kinder, gentler, slower, more personal times.
Now, hold onto your hats, Dear Blog Readers, because I am going to show you something frightening.
Your Central California artist needs to keep reminding herself that it is good to be humble.
Growth is good.
People were very kind in the olden days and hadn’t learned all that anonymous internet rude behavior yet.
If you bought art from me back then, THANK YOU!!
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This turned out great! Brought me right back to being there in the meadow!
Aw shucks, thanks, Jess! If you want the story behind the new drawing, you can email me and I’ll tell you all about it.
And yet, there is a simple rustic warmth and validity that I still admire in what I call your early “vignettes”. Yes, there is a world of difference in your conceptual vision and professional talents today that are wonderful. And what I feel is one of the most wondrous parts of your growth is your great teaching ability to help your students move past their own early foundations to achieve their own form of excellence!
Louise, by showing these early attempts at realistic pencil drawing, I make my students feel more comfortable with their own work. I love helping people learn to draw!
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