Tips for bus drawing: Sit facing forward, draw people in profile. Pick fresh riders, otherwise they might get off. Don’t be ashamed if people watch or a drawing sours or somebody notices you drawing them; if that makes you stop you’ll never get enough practice to improve. Draw squiggly texture during bumps. Mass hatch during movement. Zone in on careful details during stops. 90% of bus drawing is getting instincts for this time management. Since you can’t juggle lots of supplies, pare down to a ball point pen. If you say you can’t draw on the bus, you risk convincing yourself. #bus #drawing #Seattle #metro #Seattlemetro #urbansketch #dline

Posted by oscarbaechler on January 29, 2017
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Painting Throwback

Posted by oscarbaechler on January 17, 2017
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Back in May 2012 I figured with all the energy spent looking at painters, I should pick up painting. This was one of my early attempts for my buddy Jacob; I aimed at a chronological study of painting, and first went for the tedious techniques of the Flemish. My wife and I were going to have our first child in December, and in preparing for the mental state of parenthood, we found taboos against breast feeding absurd.

This painting was an homage to an old print my mom had of the Virgin Mary nursing lil baby Jesus in public, by Leonardo Da Vinci. How absurd, I thought, that in modern times people would throw shade at her for such an act, and that in America at least, such shaming tends to come from the more conservative branches of the religious Christian right.
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