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Dag,
So i'm well on my way to learning dutch, but it's a useless language... I know it's sounds like i'm being an arrogant american, but it's true. I'm glad that you posted your work, it's nice to see what your up to. Also it prompted me to do the same. So here are some of the sketches i've been doing. like you dan, i've been drawing people on the fly. The drawings vary in the time they took to complete 5 minutes, 20 minutes, an hour.... I've been playing around with the idea of sketching vs. the concept of picture making. Some are sketches, a means to move my hand and get practice. While others are pictures. With these, i' attempt to create an image. thinking about issues such as composition and the placement of lights and darks. basically it's an amped up version of sketching and it's a very barron-esque approach. Although alot of the time end up trying to pull a composition together out of a somewhat incoherent drawing. The sketches are of people that i live with, people in my classes, Amsterdam, and various activites that i attend. We've discussed my inability to work in sketchbooks before, i realize that it's because i was so product oriented. After taking classes by mark and barron, and larry, i realize that it's about the act of drawing rather than the actual finished drawing itself. One can be pleasantly surprised by the results. Oliver grundy was my first complete sketch book, however a majority of it's content is writing. Mevrouw Visser, my new sketch book, is comprised of more drawings and is filling up at a steady pace. sorry the image quality is rubbish