Author Archives: Mr Ward

About Mr Ward

Art Educator

Altered book…

I finally added some drawings to my altered sketch book. Just a few drawings          with a charcoal pencil of things around the house, my kids and a class I subbed for. The pages are working well for … Continue reading

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Altered book update

Now it’s books. My wife saw how cool my experiment was going with my altered book and gessoing the pages so she asked for one. I thought that it would be great Christmas present for so I started and extra … Continue reading

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Book arts in progress…

I found this book in the free pile at work. It was just sitting there begging to be manipulated into something special. So far I have torn out more than half the pages and glue the other half into doubles. … Continue reading

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Next Drawings

This is my latest exercise using the One drawing a day. The book is called One drawing a day but its seems I am doing the one drawing a week. Life with two kids, a great wife, work, and all … Continue reading

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Drawing 7-8

This is my 7th exercise using the One drawing a day. Using Charcoal, ink and pen I created three portraits of my family members.  Jen (my wife) and Bella (my daughter) and one Jen made of me.  I am really … Continue reading

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Drawing 5-6

This is my 5th & 6th exercise using the One drawing a day. I have been looking at these exercises as black and white, follow to the t, you must do it like it is written type of assignments and … Continue reading

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Drawing 4

This is my 4th exercise using the One drawing a day. In this exercise I was assigned to watch a video and when paused draw what I see using vine charcoal. I decided to watch a video of a live … Continue reading

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Drawing 3

This is my 3rd exercise using the One drawing a day. As I said in the last post I needed a bamboo pen to draw with and I could not find one. I even looked for some decorative bamboo I … Continue reading

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Drawing 2

This is my 2nd exercise using the One drawing a day. Drawing 3 (Jen as Blossom) – This drawing is an exploration in the variation of line using pen and ink. I used 4 different nid sizes to vary the … Continue reading

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