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Fear of Photos


Gregory Manchess

Working from photos comes up every semester I teach. The students are always concerned that it’s cheating. Ridiculous. If you know how to train yourself to draw, then photography is not an issue. It can help you see. Here’s why… The camera does not capture the reality we experience. A photograph is a representation of reality, not a copy of it. A painting doesn’t copy reality either. It doesn’t come close. It is a representation,…

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Garden Birds


Jesper Ejsing

January 6, 2025 - I am starting a new project: Garden Birds.  Its a fully illustrated book about the 50 most common birds in the garden in Scandinavia. There is a lot of those books out there, but whats different with this one is that its not a field guide its more an inspirational book that shows all the interesting little behaviors and details about birds that most people know.  In order for me to capture all these details I have started sketching in on each species. I started with Wrens; my favorite bird. And moved on to Robin. This week I am doing house sparrow and sparrow hawk. The plan is to sketch and discover my way through all of the 50 birds, combine it with field studies and photos of ordinary birds doing ordinary bird things. After…

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