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Monthly Archives: October 2018

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Rhizomes, Carbon and Graphite: Contemplations on a Sketchbook, Part 2

October 31, 2018 by telyhardware

It will be 50 years since Donn E. Trethewey told me that “if I wanted to be an artist, I would have to draw everyday.’’ That was on October 26, 1968. I was 19 years old going on 11. I have been lucky to have a friend in Donn since that time. He also told me about adding glycerine to my gouache to make it appear flat as if screen printed. Lovely. Between Don’s admonition and Imus’s assignment discussed in […]

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Rhizomes and Ink: Contemplations on a Sketchbook, Part 1

October 16, 2018 by telyhardware

In my first drawing class in college in 1967, my instructor said either “always carry a sketchbook” or “always keep a sketchbook.” I don’t know if anyone else in Keith Imus’s Drawing 101 paid much attention, but I did.  Over the past 50 plus years sketchbooks have developed into a most potent device for learning. It is a discipline at the crux of my professional life. Discipline In that first year drawing course, Mr. Imus made it part of our […]

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