Deb Etheredge: The balcony garden is starting to produce. We only have 75 square feet but have created 55 of growing space & still have somewhere to sit plus a place to grill. Top row: kaffir lime tree, Meyer lemon, rosemary. Middle: heirloom cherry tomatoes, french rad
Deb Etheredge: A throwback Thursday piece created as a stencil for an old friends visit to Sydney. I'd prepared a stencil or two for my neighborhood graffiti wall. This one is Picasso's "the source". Picasso's painting references greek sculpture from his brief classical
Deb Etheredge: Latest Bargue drawing. After 3 evening sessions. #barguedrawing #bargueplate #barguedrawingcourse #realism #drawingpractice #drawingskills #drawingsofinstagram #classicalrealism
Deb Etheredge: Started a new Bargue plate. A little out of practice, it's too wide on the right. #bargueplate #barguedrawing #classicalrealism
Deb Etheredge: "Holi Cow" 2005, oil and spray paint on board. A piece from my transition period from art school abstraction to contemporary realism. #throwbackthursday or #flashbackfriday back in Australia. #holicow
Deb Etheredge: Camera Roll-650
Deb Etheredge: About half way through a Brague drawing that i had started before we moved. It's slow progress. There's a few corrections to make tomorrow.
Deb Etheredge: Archway entrance at the legion. #legionofhonor
Deb Etheredge: One of my favorite Jean-Léon Gérôme paintings, "the bath". The figure glows, the tiles all turquoise and appearing glazed. #jeanleongerome #legionofhonor #realistpainting
Deb Etheredge: Same Bierstadt picture with detail of rays and sharks on sale.
Deb Etheredge: Detail of Albert Bierstadt's "The Arch of Octavius" 1858. Romans selling shark in the fish market.
Deb Etheredge: Albert Bierstadt "Sunlight and Shadow" from 1862. Nice light
Deb Etheredge: Orchid and Hummingbird by Martin Heade
Deb Etheredge: Unusual painting for 1950. John Koch "The Bridge"
Deb Etheredge: Starling resting on one of the lions. #legionofhonor
Deb Etheredge: The obedient continue to wait.
Deb Etheredge: The lunch eater. #legionofhonor
Deb Etheredge: The Thinker and the visitors. #legionofhonor #thinker
Deb Etheredge: Rodin's Thinker at the Legion. #legionofhonor #thinker #rodin
Deb Etheredge: Detail of Laocoön and his sons. #legionofhonor #laocoön #castdrawing
Deb Etheredge: Replica of the Laocoön and his sons outside the Legion. I really should go back up and do some drawings from this. #legionofhonor #laocoön #castdrawing #iconicaculpture
Deb Etheredge: Painted in circa 1635 with incredible detail. Stanzione's Woman in Neapolitan Costume at the Legion. #legionofhonor #chicken
Deb Etheredge: Example of technical mastery from the permanent collection at my favourite SF museum, Legion of Honor, Albert Joseph Moore "Revery" #legionofhonor #revery
Deb Etheredge: The end of the pose, 20 hour mark.
Deb Etheredge: Moving in to shading after 12 hours or so.
Deb Etheredge: Added terminators and started blocking in shadows.
Deb Etheredge: Long pose figure drawing after approximately 6 hours work to get proportions somewhat correct.
Deb Etheredge: The drawing
Deb Etheredge: Quick pear drawing
Deb Etheredge: Another Brague drawing