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NEW SCHEDULE

I've rearranged my schedule to make room for drawing and painting. Instead of going to the gym at lunch I go to the library instead. I look for books with interesting (to me) pictures and I grab desk with side panels and draw and paint for about an hour.
The bottom drawings are from a book about local houses that have been saved from the wrecking ball. Both of these houses are in the neighborhood where I grew up. I'm not always in favor of "preserving history" but they make for nice images to draw.

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I just wanted to take a simple shape with one color to do a value study.

This is one of my daughters toys placed on a kitchen towel. I walked away from this still life for a few minutes and someone thoughtfully put it away while I was gone.

Someone from the newspaper

This is a toy that my wife has on her dresser. It's from the movie, "Monsters Inc.". I wanted to depict a model of a charactor and have it retain it's plastic attributes. If that makes any sense to any one.

An Apache buckskin cap found in the book, "500 Nations" by Alvin Josephy. I lost the contrast and started using prisma pencils to dig myself out of the mud. I'm using a small moleskin watercolor sketchbook and I'm falling off the page because I'm not planning for the small surface.

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ALMOST FORGET THIS ONE......

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Giving It A Chance

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

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Friday Afternoon

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Tomorrow is Ruby's birthday. She will be nine years old.

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Lunchtime @ Blandford Nature Center

Lately, on my lunch hour, instead of going to the gym I'll bring my pen or pencil and sketchbook and go to Blandford to do some drawing. These are just a small collection since I started doing this.

COUNT THE BIGGS IN ON THIS ONE!!!

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

Who: Ted

What: Birthday

Where: *

Why: BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU!
When: Thursday, July 27th, 2006:anytime after 5:00 pm-(??)

How: Plane, Train or Automobile

Clarifications:

Bring yr kids if you got em...., Dead Animals to grille or Vegetables to stir-fry , if you eat it,.... liquor, beer or wine, if you drink it, .....a swimsuit or Birthday suit, .....if you have one. A white Elephant B-day gift,.... if yr generous.

Ye olde Ted, thee 34 yeare olde Towne Cryer!

(sung to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Theme song)

Who's the leader of the club
That's made for you and me
T-E-D-*-*-*-*
/ G - / A7 D7 / G C GD7 G /

Hey there hi there ho there
You're as welcome as can be
T-E-D-K-L-U-G
Ted *(Donald Duck)
Ted * (Donald Duck)
Forever let us hold your banner high (high, high, high!)

/ C - / G - / A7 - D7 - /

Come along and sing a song
And join the jamboree
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[Ending theme, much slower:]

Now it's time to say goodbye
To all our company

T-E-D-, See you real soon
A-L-L-E-N, Why? Because we like you
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3-16-2006

fun with charcoal

I started this drawing last friday and rediscovered a medium I only used in figure drawing classes. I think the secret to this is to start out simple in terms of values and refine as you go as far as you want to go. I could've finished a lot more projects in one the many art classes I flunked had I just started out in a very general way and refined the work as time allowed.

Robert Biggs @ the Museum

mrbiggstuff's day off

I took the day off and went to the Grand Rapids Public Museum today. I took my sketchbook with me and decided I would ignore anyone who wants to tell my how wonderful me and my drawings were. I mean, I had a lot of drawing to do in a short amount of time and I could not be bothered by the masses who want to touch me and marvel at my talent. There were kids of all ages there and a large gaggle of seniors and none of which showed the least bit of interest in what I was doing. Who needs them anyway.

Today's accomplishments

My daughter Ruby agreed to stand still for me while I drew her.

Lois, my niece, also agreed to stand still long enough for me to draw her. She spent the day with us today and we all had a great day.

I finally made a decent transfer. Now I just have to learn how to use it as part of the whole.

An Evening With Winona Laduke

Last thursay evening it was my honor to attend a talk given by Winona LaDuke @ Grand Valley University downtown campus. I sketched her while she spoke and asked her to sign my sketch for me which she happily complied. Miigwetch, Winona.
To learn more about Winona please click on the "Native Harvest" link in the column on the left.

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