I spent the weekend in a workshop called “Experimental Mark-Making In Figure Drawing.” Two days, six hours a day. Pretty exhausting. Teacher Mark Eanes was great. I regained my sense of joy in figure drawing. Here is some of my work: Using a searching, “groping” line to create a figure gesture that looks like a… Continue reading Back To The Drawing Board
Category: Art
Winter’s Work
This weekend we were at our Healdsburg house pruning the over-grown persimmon tree. My old friends Dennis and Melinda showed up with well-worn ladders and pruning shears from Dennis’ family farm. Luckily he also brought his long experience with those shears and helped get the job done. It made me think about the weeks of… Continue reading Winter’s Work
At The Dipper
The first 20 years of my life were marked by the annual prune harvest, a tradition that has disappeared from my hometown today. In fact, many of the old-fashioned by-hand harvest methods have disappeared even from the places that still cultivate prunes. (Yes, they are really plums, but they are a specific breed called a… Continue reading At The Dipper
Joanne Taeuffer 