Posts Tagged ‘Charlie’

Quick Sketches

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Some quick sketches I did while watching an old movie, “Confidential Agent.”

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Overheard: Kohl’s

Friday, January 1st, 2010

“I’m just not used to seeing that much foot, you know?”

Pale Skin Study

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

I haven’t posted in quite some time… mainly because I haven’t *had* anything to post in quite some time. But I did this study a while back, of pale skin tone. Basically, you lay down a layer of grayish green, and then build over it in semi-transparent layers with colors like pink, yellow, and beige. I don’t know if I did it right technically speaking, but I did like the results, so there you have it.

Skin Study

Perpetual Surprises

Monday, October 12th, 2009

I have striven as a parent to teach my child to be considerate of others. It’s something I personally find very important, something I think the world sadly lacks.

But now that my son has become the thoughtful little boy that he is, I recently developed a new worry. What if he becomes the one that gets picked on. He loves other kids but tends to be shy around them. Strangely, he is never shy around adults and loves conversing with us like we’re all his best friends (he’ll even shout “Hello there!” across a parking lot to strangers he sees loading their groceries into the trunk of their car. But with children? He never seems to know what to say. And so I became worried that “the mean ones” might single him out as weak; a target to throw their abuse at.

Yesterday we took Miles to the park, and I was pleasantly surprised by something.

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