Doug Higgins, Artist Statement

The work of Doug Higgins is best described as contemporary impressionism. From his home in Santa Fe, NM, he travels throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe painting landscapes and seascapes on location. He works en plein air either with a portable easel, in his painting truck or in his fully equipped studio RV. I found his site and clicked on the link -- Book. And what a surprise it was!! It is basically a free book, where the artist has dropped a lot of his notes on drawing and painting. And he remembers the teachings of his mentor Frank Reilly. Reilly begins with the basics of drawing the human figure, to painting with oil. And not only that he gives us a truly inspiration insight into his life as an artist and pursuing our artisitc goals. Incidentally the htm is labeled - Artist statement. To go just click on the link I've put below: Doug Higgins Notes and Teachings

Flower Pencil Drawings

I used to hate drawing flowers when I first started drawing. I've always wanted to draw humans, people moving, portraits. But there's always a first time. And when that time comes you discover that drawing a flower is not really different than drawing a human. Sure, when drawing people you have to be more conscious about proportions, but at the end, when proportions are laid out is all the same. And it helps us find new forms and shapes in nature, you can even adapt this new shapes to your figure drawing, and the barriers of creativity are only set by you. But it all starts with a drawing. Therefore, I'm leaving you some links to Flower Pencil Drawings, and I encourage you to start your own. Even if you think it is dull, or you don't like it. Flowers are mostly about color, so be sure to start going wild with colors once you studied its parts, movement and shapes with some pencil drawings. Pencil Drawing of a Flower --J Derrick Carmen Melton's Flower Drawing How to Draw a Rose --Carol Rosinski