A New (to me) Artist

While perusing Pinterest I came across this artist. 

Graham Franciose

I love his work!

It's so emotional, captivating and creative.

I don't have permission to post his work, but you should definitely check it out for yourself. 

It'll be worth your time!!

Repetition

Currently I'm teaching my students about repetition and pattern. 

So it's not surprising that repetition is on my mind. 

7x9" Mixed Media

Inspired by Julie, I ordered a bunch of stencils from scrapbook.com including the one seen above and played with it a bit in my sketchbook. I'm not in love with it as a finished product, but I like it enough I guess to play with mixed media and stencils. 

Maurice

I am currently in Boston. 

I love traveling.

One of my favorite parts of traveling is seeing the street artists. 

I love supporting local artist, whether I'm at home or in another city. 

Today I got to meet Maurice. 

He is a nice man with great artistic talent. 

The local museum brings in a live model for their guests to practice drawing and this is Maurice's drawing from the museum class that I bought.

While it's more of a sketch, he had finished portraits that were in pastel and they were gorgeous!

He is much better at drawing portraits than I am!

Here we are at the North End on a Saturday evening listening to the US Air Force Band.

Such a blessing to meet him!