Joanne Mackellar

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Life Drawing

    Life drawing was finally back on. I’ve found that it’s hard to get started after such a long break. In between the months since  life drawing I’ve been practising faces and hands. Proportions took  a little longer to get right. It’s clear that I need to practice drawing the figure more, maybe with clothing. I’m still…

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  • Sage Advice

    Stop reading. Start doing. There’s a lot of things that haven’t been done yet that need you to go do them. Go – 7 Things I Learned From My Encounter With Russell Kirsch

  • Life Drawing

    It’s been a while since I posted my life drawing sessions. These were actually done in July, but haven’t gotten round to posting them till now. I’ve been using charcoal pencil with bond layout paper. Paper seems to make all the difference on how I draw. Taking notice of other people’s drawings I’m keen to…

  • Life Drawing

    I don’t have a A3 scanner so I’m finding it a bit hard with the weather to take suitable photos of my life drawings. I’ve changed mediums again. I’m now using charcoal pencil and willow charcoal for the construction lines. This sessions model was Nadia and I’ve come to love the difficult poses she’s so…

  • It’s all about learning!

    Recently at my workplace I had created a facebook fan page. Not many people know this but farmers do like to use social media to communicate, farmers happen to be the target audience. Social media is a powerful tool that we could use for feedback on our products and understand what our customers want. When…

  • Star Trek Intro

    It’s no secret that I love Star Trek. So it’s hard to imagine I wouldn’t enjoy such a clever interpretation of the Star Trek theme. The team behind this animation captured the essence of what is Star Trek. They’ve done it quite well.

  • Keep Drawing

    I hope to.

  • Life Drawing

    I decided to go to life drawing this week since there was no model last week. Again we had Nadia as our model and she does love the difficult poses. At the same it’s annoying but also challenging. This week I ended up using Bond layout paper (50gsm) and compressed charcoal pencils. I’m slowly working…

  • Life Drawing

    I haven’t been to life drawing for a while and the first session I turn up to the model decides to call in sick. The session wasn’t lost, we decided to concentrate on drawing portraits of each other instead. Each sitting went for about 30 minutes, which is why most of the models eyes are…

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