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Everyday Activities

Sketching the Ordinary to the Extraordinary

From day to day you don’t know what you might see, from the ordinary to extraordinary and all that lies between. It is up to the sketcher to make it interesting and fun to look at because you captured some nuance or essence of the pose.

A woman bending down and pointing at who knows what, a guy riding a bicycle, a stretch to reach up or pushing a cart are mundane activities. It is up to the artist to make the individual object of our attention interesting.

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While seated in my office on the second floor of the building, I was able to observe the construction of a new building ...

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