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Old 12-24-2008, 02:46 PM
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The kids came home from college and that is great. Kaitlin brought some of her drawing/paintings
home that she has done at college. I asked if I could take a picture of them and post them and she said ok.

These are about 18”x24” and drawn with prisma color pencils on top of a marker underlay.











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Old 12-24-2008, 03:17 PM
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Steve...My wife loves the still life..your daughter is very talented..I am very impressed with the hands..not easy to do..if she can do hands like that..she can do anything. I loved the picture of the Christmas tree with the beautiful cat amongst the cat ornaments..the thing about cats is that they can always find a warm and cozy spot..our cat Squeeky loves it underneath the wood stove..funny thing he doesn't scratch on our bedroom door at 3am in the morning during the winter..he's hunkered down underneath the stove..my wife thinks maybe we should keep it lighted during the summer too.

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

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Nicely done Kaitlin!

Steve, it's obvious that both skill and attention to detail run in your family.
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Old 12-24-2008, 03:56 PM
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WOW...Kaitlin has exceptional talent Steve.

Pleasure seeing her work.

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Kaitlin,
Keep up the good work!!! I'm impressed.
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Very nice work and beautiful light
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Old 12-25-2008, 03:41 AM
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Very nice Kaitlin, Engraving next???
Show us more, as JJ said hands are one of the hardest body parts to draw...
Thanks for all you help with the Forum...
Merry Christmas and have a great New Year...
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Old 12-25-2008, 04:17 AM
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Wauw, Kaitlin, You must be top of your class! :whoo:
Really amazing.
I am most happy if I can draw a stick man right.
Hope to see more of your work.

Greetings,


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Old 12-25-2008, 11:45 AM
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Now that is great. It really comes though that you are enjoying college. It is nice tht you keep us guys up to date on what you are doing. Send us your stuff whenever you can. You have a great 2009. Jack
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simply wonderful .
hands are very hard to interpret
I especially like the appearance of translucency in the flower vases and the distortion of the stems
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Kaitlin your work is impressive, and you show a fine understanding of dot placement in the shading, too. No doubts as to where that comes from!
I hope your Christmas was overflowing with happiness and your New Year will be the best ever for you and your family.
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Steve,

Thanks for showing Katlin's excellent work. Her talent and skill are obvious in her pictures. I hope she doesn't fall prey to the post-modern abstractionists that rule the world of the fine art today. Please pass on this link to the Art Renewal Center: http://www.artrenewal.org/ There is a wealth of information there about how the world of 20th century fine arts came to such a sorry state and the movement to return to forms of art that uplift and inspire with the kind of skill that Katlin's work exhibits.

Merry Christmas to all,

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Steve .... I think the right person to teach an art course for engravers has been right under your nose for a long time.

Between to two of you, something really wonderful could be put together in the art of scroll design and layout as well as the difficult areas of mammals (eyes and hands).

Catch ya later ...

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Hi Steve

That was a good idea asking Kaitlin about posting her drawings! My daughter is still fussing at me about posting her drawings a while back!

Terrific art work Kaitlin. I hope my girl decides to start drawing again. If she got be even half as good as you and I'd still be a proud Daddy
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Thanks for the posting Steve!

I used to work closely with art students. I was appalled by their school's inability or apathy toward teaching the fundamentals of drawing! Kaitlin obviously has had an excellent home background in the arts but it's also obvious that she has that certain innate "art gene" that most of the populous is missing. The technical, and for many impatient students, somewhat boring aspect of learning to truly DRAW WELL must be the first fundamental learned if one is to become any kind of artist. It does not matter what their eventual medium is, flat art or sculpture, monochromatic or colorful, all must descend from strong design and drawing skills. These skills are already a large part of Kaitlin's repertoire and will only grow with the proper nurturing she is getting.

Please, keep us posted on her journey of discovery!


Merry Christmas,

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Thank you, guys!

These are all from my 400-level drawing course this semester, so the curriculum was wide open... I am hoping to use the pieces in my application portfolio to grad schools next year. They like to see drawings of hands, hehe.

The still life is framed and made it into the Art & Design Annual art show at school this year, so that was pretty exciting. Didn't win anything, though, both judges were graphic designers.

Roger, the Art Renewal Center is an awesome museum, I visit the bookmark often. I love the contemporary artists section the most, it's inspiring to see modern painters still working realistically.

Happy holidays! Kaitlin
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I asked Kaitlin what she used to look at to draw the hands and
she said they are her own hands.

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Old 12-26-2008, 02:35 PM
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I hear what you are saying about the graphic designer judges, Kaitlin. I have a friend that has reached his frustration point with his school and the graphic design direction. It seems to me that they aren't teaching much of what I always thought of as the fundamentals of drawing, and he was watching people with four and five years at this school get degrees with absolutely no drawing ability at all. It seems like skills with the pen tool in Photoshop are more important to them than using an actual pen or any other instrument. These pieces are really beautiful.
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