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experiments in skin tone
It would appear every artist has their own recipe, often kept very secret, to getting decent skin tone. I have previously blundered along doing everything in "full colour", sometimes a little luridly...
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Returning to the torso
I must admit updating this blog has been a low priority, and unfortunately my painting and sketching time has also suffered. So i'm starting back slowly. This "half torso" took me considerable longer...
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Article 22
The impressionist knew that shadow colour was all important and how we interpret skin tone has as much to do with the colours in the shadows as it does to the very brightest colours in the areas of...
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Hello ..again
It has been a long long time since I posted it here. Too long! I'd moved to pastels some time ago and loved them as a rapid medium, you sketch and paint at the same time but... I could never get the...
View ArticleBuggar, I must have disturbed the trolls nest again
Hmmmmm, by all the returned emails it looks like some hackers are trawling through my old yahoo account contact addressed and somehow impersonating me on gmail. So if you get a group email from me, Its...
View ArticleDid you miss me?
Its been over a year since I've visted here, thought I'd better get rid of the cobwebs. I can see a lot of links are broken (c'est la vie) but I thought it is time to get posting some sketching again....
View ArticlePosemanics for gestures sketches
For those that are fans of quick gesture sketching. It is fun and good for your health as well as your artistic skills. I have found a get website called Posemanics, which gives you a wide variety of...
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Sketching is good for your health
The social networks have changed a lot while I have been giving them a rest, they seem to be a heck of a lot of ego and stalking rather than a place of collaboration and conversation, but it might just...
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#Hashtag Congestions
I'm changing my sketching hashtag from #shortblack => #espresso to avoid continually crashing into @Sandra_Sully's news sheet, sorry sandra— norton elissen (@sighclone) July 16, 2014
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The underside of the social web
I know I haven't been posting in here much, I am still drawing and enjoying life. It was just that I was having a welcome, albeit long, break from the havoac of trolls and hackers. Luckily blogger's...
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I'm tweeting a bit again
“Forget the LOLcats put some #art on your favorite #screen today” http://t.co/pmBLqpXexepic.twitter.com/sysMSZchVe— norton elissen (@sighclone) October 20, 2014 One place you can find me is on twitter....
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Having second thoughts?
pastel over watercolour on paperMy latest on-line project to hand drawn selfies posted by others, seemed like a good idea at the time, but has not meet with much enthusiasm. Perhaps it is was too many...
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The broken links....and what to do about them
One of the causalities of my brush with hackers and low life's is the fact that I have been banned on a few services (nothing to actually do with me! BTW) or considered UNSAFE on others, so a lot of...
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