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Like a runner likes to run,12 comments

benedictedelachanal wrote 1 month ago: Like a runner likes to run I like to draw. The act of drawing;  acknowledging  this made me draw mor … more →

Tags: Animal, Art, ink and pen, Line Drawing, Sketch, cicada, cigale, Crocodile, Insectes

Botanical equivalence potagère5 comments

benedictedelachanal wrote 1 month ago: Pumpkin and p'tit chou When a pumpkin is equivalent to a cabbage : “Good night Pumpkin … more →

Tags: Garden Art, ink and pen, Line Drawing, Sketch Book, pumpkin, Citrouille, chou, Cabbage

Swimming up through the bounds8 comments

alethakuschan wrote 2 months ago: We need boundaries, and we need to defy rules also. No edges, no defiance. Yet one wants to be more … more →

Tags: Art, koi, Life, anglais-français, Bénédicte, boundaries, creer, Creating, Freedom

Tomato Khan10 comments

benedictedelachanal wrote 2 months ago: Gengis Khan Real tomatoes, grown outside…why do they bother growing them in winter? For the mo … more →

Tags: Art, art food, Horse, Ink, ink and pen, Encre, Genghis Khan, Tomato

Get up and draw7 comments

benedictedelachanal wrote 3 months ago: EDM #236 Draw your left palm dimanche matin dans le jardin Sunday morning was so hot, for Montreal, … more →

Tags: Art, ink and pen, Line Drawing, montreal, dessin de main, edm challenge, Hand Drawing, Sketch Book

Bonne nuit, sweet dreams14 comments

benedictedelachanal wrote 3 months ago: Bonne nuit, sweet dreams About halfway through my book of cats, not every cat make it to the blog. J … more →

Tags: Animal, cat, ink and pen, Line Drawing, chat

Today's Old Master Copy6 comments

alethakuschan wrote 3 months ago: When you’re busy raising hamsters, you’ve much less time for drawing fish.  Alas.  So, t … more →

Tags: Art, Drawing, Life, Copies, drawing with the left hand, handedness, Helena, Old Masters, Pastime

And it's not even his birthday4 comments

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: As previous posts explain, I have been doing left-handed drawings after Ingres.  It’s become a … more →

Tags: Art, Drawing, Life, Pencil, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Left Hand, Musee Ingres Montauban, Young Man with an Earring

Some Residents of Heaven

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: My daughter asked me today if I could have a meeting of my favorite artists in heaven, who would I i … more →

Tags: Art, Life, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer, Heaven, BOILEAU, Musee Ingres Montauban

My lament

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: I was telling a friend of mine last week, as we strolled through the National Gallery of Art, how mu … more →

Tags: Art, Drawing, Life, attribution questions, Beauty, Copies, Loveliness, National Gallery of Art, titian

Loopy Lines7 comments

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: My kid wanted a drawing lesson today so I suggested she do what the old masters did when they were p … more →

Tags: Art, Drawing, Life, Copies, Ingres, Karol M. Thompson, Left Hand, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princesse de Broglie

Drawing from Life5 comments

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: I observed a scrupulous realism and yet my drawing has turned out rather vague!  Well, my subject wa … more →

Tags: Art, Drawing, Life, landscape, life drawing, Memory, Scribbling, Realism, naar het leven

Having Fun2 comments

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: Regular readers of this blog know I like to make copies.  I also like to have fun.  A while back whe … more →

Tags: Art, Drawing, Life, cartoons, Colored pencils, Copies, Having Fun, hiroshige, Hokusai

Garden Sketch

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: Sometimes less is more.  This one’s my favorite so far.  Just squiggly lines and a garden insi … more →

Tags: Art, Drawing, Life, landscape, Garden, Colored pencils, Squiggly lines, Less Is More

The garden's bright quietude

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: After staring meditatively at fish all day, as delightful as the koi pond is, still one wants a litt … more →

Tags: Art, Drawing, Life, Garden, sketching, Colored pencils, sketchbooks, long walks, evening mediation

Jan Lievens and Me in Color2 comments

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: I was browsing through the exhibition catalog of the National Gallery of Art’s Jan Lievens sho … more →

Tags: Art, Drawing, Colored pencils, Copies, Jan Lievens, Man with a Beret, tronie

Beautiful Graphite!2 comments

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: In the previous post I explained that collage could be a means of escape from the indecision that so … more →

Tags: Art, Drawing, Flowers, Pencil, graphite, Art Techniques, loopy, smudginess, virtues of indecision

There's More to Me than Being Koi4 comments

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: Sometimes I like to use collage to design things.  It’s very freeing.  Almost no matter what s … more →

Tags: Art, Design, collage, cut paper, Flowers, Scissors, Whimsy

What we cannot show you yet3 comments

alethakuschan wrote 4 months ago: Our hamster surprised us yesterday by becoming a mother — rather unexpectedly.  Well, I suppos … more →

Tags: Art, Drawing, Life, Mother, hamster, surprises


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