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Robert A. Sloan
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- Lawrence, KS
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Very cool
this looks gr8!!!
Lovely idea. Excellent colors. Congratulations on this one! Ro
What a beautiful bird. I love the clarity and how vivid the colors are.
Well Robert, you can blame it on me. I didn't tell you to also click on Link to original. The 300 pixels blows it up the first time, then Link to original enlarges it again. I really don't know why it has to be so confusing. I'd be willing to bet th…
That worked! I let it resize it to 300 pixels but selected it'll come up full size in a popup if clicked. Maybe that's why it took so long and didn't work before.
vary classic study in value and color i love thees kinds of pictures they remind me of school days
Well, i'll give it a try! That's actually what I did that created the link in the start of the discussion. I'm very annoyed it didn't work this time, it worked on Clarity.
Very, very good, Robert.......but you need to post it here directly. You can just click on the camera above this window now. I just recently figured out that, when you start a new discussion, you don't get the camera but a small rectangular picture.…
Keel-Billed_Toucan.jpg
Keel-Billed Toucan
5" x 7"
Derwent Artists' colored pencils
Rising Stonehenge, white.
Photo reference by Ceci from WetCanvas.com Reference Image Library.
Drew this today to illustrate my review of Derwent Artists' colored pen…
It looks good! The apple is gorgeous and the metal cylinder or canister reflecting it is well done. Good choice of objects and excellent rendering. The only problem is composition, and I suspect that could be your scanner's doing.
The cylinder is t…
Interesting. Looks cheerfully autumnal.
Yes, those are the ones I was talking about. I only have a few of them because they're very expensive, so I keep putting them off till last. Eventually I'll have full range on all the good artist grade colored pencils, but it won't be soon. I love t…
Hey Robert,
Am I right that the Pablos you're talking about are Caran D'Ache? I only have a few of those. Don't even remember why I got them but I'm sure it was for some particular project. I like them and will probably get more.
Fran
This is a great series. I like the exuberant strange foliage on your bamboo and the way you used different colors in monochromes and duochromes. Very classical.
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- Country (no abbreviations please)
- USA
- City (no abbreviations please)
- Russellville
- What's your favorite media?
- Acrylics, Charcoal, Graphite, Oils, Ink, Pastels, Watercolors, Other
- How long have you been drawing or painting?
- More than 3 years
- Tell us a bit about yourself:
- "Other" includes Coloured Pencils and Oil Pastels among many, many, many others. There ought to have been an option for "all of the above and then some!"
I also own and maintain an Oil Pastels website, Explore-Oil-Pastels-With-Robert-Sloan.com -- search on that and you will definitely find it. Big site with 75 pages or so, but no forums like this one.
I have been doing art all my life, was professional in the 1990s and now disabled completely, have been doing more writing about art and teaching online.
One of the wonderful things about Bob Davies and his Watercolour Secrets videos is that even if you are already pretty much of an expert -- they are inspiring and for someone self taught, they can fill in gaps you didn't know you had. Watercolour wasn't my strongest medium. I've spent years trying to master it and those videos helped me understand it a lot better in its own right. Some things like travel sketching are coming clearer to me than they ever have.
Oh yes. I tend to write rather long posts on everything from introductions to posts -- it's an occupational hazard for a novelist. Someday I expect to earn enough from online and offline writing to quit my day job as a cripple -- even though I'll get it again just for age in a couple of decades, it'll be nice to do that and be self supporting again.
My science fiction novel, Raven Dance, is available at iUniverse.com and is a big fat epic with plenty of action, social satire, intricate plotting and immesvie backstory. If you like visiting the weirder places in the literary universe you'll probably enjoy it.
Robert A. Sloan's Artwork
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Watercolor Journal Entry
Arkansas Evening
5" x 4 1/2"
Blick Artists' Watercolor
Moleskine watercolor journal 5" x 8 1/2" (second painting on the page)
Yesterday, I finished a major project that I can't post online till after the 15th -- the deadline for the Oil Pastel Society's 2009 member show… Continue
Posted on July 14, 2009 at 2:26pm —
Oh wow, another blog! Cool!
Broken Tree
5" x 8"
Blick Artists' Watercolor
Moleskine watercolor journal
That journal has 72 pages and by using both sides, I've only used ten of them so far. It amazes me how slow it is to fill, but that's something really cool about it. I'm looking toward using i… Continue
Posted on July 12, 2009 at 1:06am — 2 Comments
Comment Wall (21 comments)
- At 9:39pm on December 11, 2009, SHY gave Robert A. Sloan a gift…
- At 4:47pm on November 8, 2009,
SHY said…
- Robert,
Free use means you can sell it after you paint because there is no copyright law on the use.
SHY
- At 11:38am on October 27, 2009,
Kaushik said… - Hi Robert, In touch with you after a long time. Thanks for the comments on my lake painting.
Regards
Kaushik
- At 11:15am on October 22, 2009,
SHY said…
- Yep, I'll had the flu also. A real bugger that just hangs on and on. Hope we both feel better soon!
- At 3:45am on October 21, 2009, Elizabeth gave Robert A. Sloan a gift…
- At 11:43pm on October 19, 2009,
SHY said…
- Stopping by to say hi!
- At 12:56am on October 10, 2009,
Fran said…
- Hey Robert,
Thanks so much for the nice comment and the advice on my picture of Mary Mary. That's the first time I had used the Coloursoft pencils and I really like them. Looks like I just can't get away from Derwent.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Fran
- At 5:12pm on October 1, 2009,
Elizabeth said…
- thank you for your comments on pet portraits and it was really nice to see that people liked them i will definitely look into illustrating that would be ao much fun thanks again for the information lol liz
- At 4:08pm on September 30, 2009,
Michael said… - Hi Robert
Thanks for your advice. All being stored towards my learning curve.
Michael
- At 8:22pm on September 29, 2009,
Michael said…
- Hi Robert
Thanks for your comments. I should have drawn my son in law with a narrower face.
Michael
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Hi Tanja,
Very good. I have also seen the up to date portrait. I enjoyed looking through your artwork and particularly liked the one of 'Marcus' Excellent.
Danny
Very lovely n happy happy picture... & cute smile, he looks like you Lucie : )
Beautiful location, colors n reflection.... very nice, the water is made brilliantly...
Hi Kirk,
This is a very good portrait. Payne's grey I find very good for black and white subjects, although you do seems to have other colours mixed with it? Quite a bit of red? Well done.
Danny
WOW its soooooo beautiful : ).........
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