Comments on: Saturday morning faces

By: Sherise Marie Wright

Sherise Marie Wright — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:51:20 +0000

AWESOME! I want you to know that as a quilter I love sketching new ideas for my quilts. Your work is awesome and keep going!

Happy Quilting!
Sherise
Chicago, Illinois

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:09:17 +0000

I think your work is brilliant. Thanks for putting up the images you aren't satisfied with — not just the "good" stuff. You truly are an authentic artist.

By: Judy Warner

Judy Warner — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:50:10 +0000

I think you are well on your way. Just remember to give yourself permission to play!

By: Diana Louie, The Village Fabric Shoppe

Diana Louie, The Village Fabric Shoppe — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:01:31 +0000

When I was teaching Junior High Level Art we often used Photographs as reference for faces, and I allowed tracing in the way you described for "correcting and adjusting proportions" I don't think you cheated at all. Many great realist painters used photographs extensively, there is an exhibit up now on Norman Rockwell and the photos he took for refernce, I think it is at his museum. ( some of the subjects of his paintings actually work there- much older now of course )

By: lyric

lyric — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:53:42 +0000

Not hard on myself toooo much.

Mostly I'm having a lot of fun with this.

But I REALLY want to, at some point, be able to just look at something and draw it - no in-between steps. I WILL get there. It's only one month into this year.

By: Joy

Joy — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:47:35 +0000

Both pictures are beautiful!!!! The act of tracing the outline of the image is teaching your mind/hand connection a few things. I learn by feel, and this sort of "cheating" helps me a lot. Don't be so hard on yourself!

By: Janet Ghio

Janet Ghio — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:36:51 +0000

I think it is so much easier to draw from a photo than from real life–I don't know if it is cheating or not? Who makes those rules?–is it like the quilt police? LOL