sketchBlog
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billy goats GRUFF
After trying my hand at reproducing some of Barbara Cooney’s art from Christmas Folk, I thought I’d try reproducing something that was a… Read more
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portrait SKETCHES
This past October and November I focused on producing quickly rendered portraits. I wanted to improve the accuracy of rendering a… Read more
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art of BARBARA COONEY
Every Christmas my wife reads Natalia Belting’s Christmas Folk (1969) to the children and we all love looking at Barbara Cooney’s… Read more
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sepia Natural History
In August my wife convinced me to pick up a handsome set of four sketch books manufactured by Studio. Normally I refrain from buying more… Read more
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quick FACES
With these two portraits I was trying to produce a very quick but accurate likeness of my subjects, and to achieve this goal I chose… Read more
Robert Martel | Illustrator 