Comments on: Couple at SpiderHouse Patio by the “Mannekin Pis” http://lavanna.com/2010/02/01/couple-at-spiderhouse-patio-by-the-mannekin-pis/ I Love To Do Oil Sketches of People "Live"(usually, they don't know) Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:56:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: slamdunk http://lavanna.com/2010/02/01/couple-at-spiderhouse-patio-by-the-mannekin-pis/#comment-1840 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:08:22 +0000 http://lavanna.com/?p=1946#comment-1840 Fantastic with the fountain and all…

]]> By: earacceb http://lavanna.com/2010/02/01/couple-at-spiderhouse-patio-by-the-mannekin-pis/#comment-1839 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:06:03 +0000 http://lavanna.com/?p=1946#comment-1839 I love how you have such a distinct pallet. Is this from coffee-house lighting, or is it your own personal filter?

]]> By: Lavanna Martin http://lavanna.com/2010/02/01/couple-at-spiderhouse-patio-by-the-mannekin-pis/#comment-1838 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:51:59 +0000 http://lavanna.com/?p=1946#comment-1838 Hi, Tony.
I am so happy to know that you are out there. Perhaps we could meet up some time; I would love to talk with you, and pick your brain.
Fountain pen! Oh, my – you must be good. Do you know about these two resources?: James Gurney’s blog, http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/
and the book, “Freehand Perspective” by Dora Miriam Norton?
Let’s meet, seriously. I have two other friends that are really in to drawing.

~Lavanna

]]> By: Barb http://lavanna.com/2010/02/01/couple-at-spiderhouse-patio-by-the-mannekin-pis/#comment-1837 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:26:12 +0000 http://lavanna.com/?p=1946#comment-1837 The focal point of each person tells a story in itself. Oh….if that little leaking guy could talk.

]]> By: Tony Ramirez http://lavanna.com/2010/02/01/couple-at-spiderhouse-patio-by-the-mannekin-pis/#comment-1835 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:31:43 +0000 http://lavanna.com/?p=1946#comment-1835 I had my class view your website today. I’ve been teaching my Technical Illustration class sketching techniques for the past two weeks. We are at gesture sketching right now. I was telling them about how I sketched people in restaurants using a small sketchbook and a fountain pen. I too enjoy watching people. I then told them something amazing, I told them about you sketching people in coffee houses in oil. The students were indeed amazed.
What a website. I plan on showing it to my students every semester in hopes of inspiring them to sketch. I don’t teach oil, acrylic, or watercolor but having my students sketch using a good spiral sketchbook and a 314 pencil will make my heart soar like an eagle.

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