art techniques
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Kabobs Tropical Chicken
Here’s one of the recipe illustrations I’ve been working on for Chef Kim Mahan’s cookbook. I had lots of fun putting a chicken in Speedo swim trunks! Lol! You can see more about this project here: https://sueclancy.wordpress.com/artist-books/kim-cooks-sue-draws/
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today in working cats
In my studies of cats recently I’ve learned that cats are often employed on winery and beer brewery premises – especially here in the Pacific Northwest. There are also several local bookstores and music instrument shops that have cat “staff” members too. So in support of working cats today here are two portraits I’ve just…
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feline fuzzy
It’s finally begun raining regularly here in the Pacific Northwest and I love it. Today the rainy cool air made me think of contentment and fur. Here’s artwork of Persian cat that is drying on my worktable. The cat’s name is “Harold”.
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progress on public art piece
In my last blog posts I’ve been talking about one of my current projects: I’m doing an illustration, a public art piece and giving a speech for Salmon Creek Journal and Washington State University. Here are a series of photos, covering a several week span of time, showing my progress. In general my process was to do short spurts…
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Clancy’s 5 tips for drawing crowds
I’ve been so busy with other projects that I can’t talk about in public yet that I’ve not had time – not even 5 spare minutes – to work on my Time Tavern sketchbook. So to come up with a blog post update today I flipped through my sketchbook/commonplace book. Crowds of characters feature prominently in one…
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of waiters and sketchy definitions
In my last post I mentioned that I was looking through my sketchbooks for drawings I’ve done of restaurant waiters and posted one sketch. Then, inspired by one of the sketches I found in my various books, I drew this finished drawing using ink and watercolor on handmade paper. By ‘finished’ I mean it could be framed and hung as…
