Cee’s Black and White Challenge this week is an open topic. I finally got away on a mini vacation this past week. By Saturday, the rain was moving in and the weather got wild! Ah, but the ocean is one of my favorite subjects!



All my creative pursuits.
Cee’s Black and White Challenge this week is an open topic. I finally got away on a mini vacation this past week. By Saturday, the rain was moving in and the weather got wild! Ah, but the ocean is one of my favorite subjects!



Following the chart to 52 drawings this year.
This is kind of wide open. It really could be any person, place or thing in your vicinity. I chose to draw another Philadelphia landmark – the Walt Whitman Bridge, which crosses the Delaware River from Philadelphia to Gloucester City in Camden County, New Jersey. Walt Whitman, one of America’s best loved poets, made Camden his home after suffering a stroke. He died there and his home is open to the public. Here is the Walt Whitman Bridge:

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. ~ Walt Whitman
This is another drawing tutorial – this time a cast of an ear, one of the most difficult body parts to get right. I begin with measurements, including a box in which the ear will fit. I’ll let the progression show you what I did, beginning with my reference photo:






