Category: Critique

  • Girl2 Fills In

    While Daddy is away in Louisiana on a business trip, Girl2 is filling in: Done in the back of a minivan on the way home, this started out as a wonderful drawing of my beautiful mommy.  Then, over the course of the drive, it morphed into an alien with a spider body… or a spider…

  • Friday Critique 29MAY2009

    I like to do critiques here every Friday to share my learning experiences with you.  I learn as much from giving the critiques as I do from getting them.  I hope that you learn something as well. Jeff Knecht of Jeff’s Blog and I have led parallel lives in that we both gave up the…

  • A Dear College Friend Chimes In…

    On Friday’s I like to post a few critiques.  The artist I had scheduled to chat with this week had something come up at the last minute.  Not to worry though, she made me promise to give her a rain check.  I ran into one of my dearest friends from college on Facebook.  She and…

  • Critique with Jeff Knecht

    A few weeks ago, I sent the following letter to Jeff Knecht of http://jeffknecht.com: Jeff, You and I seem to share a similar background. Just like you, I did a lot of artwork when I was much younger (20+ years) but I let life get in my way. I actually married an art teacher and…

  • Friday Critiques

    Last week, while we were still over at The Small Town Big Life, I sent out some e-mail to artists whom I admire asking for critique.  I received a lovely letter from Jeanette Jobson of The Illustrated Life, and I am going to share that with you on Monday.  I talked my beautiful young bride,…