“The Thumbnail Sketches”-Number Four

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“The Thumbnail Sketches”

Number Four

This 30 year old ‘doodle’ finally found it’s home, with some slight modifications, in this “Thumbnail Sketch” format.

The original is in private collection.

See “The Thumbnail Sketches” Number One for a synopsis of this “Series of drawings”

Art notes:

All images are copyright Craig L Haupt

Postings of “The Thumbnail Sketches” are every Monday Evening.

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“The Thumbnail Sketches”-Number Three

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“The Thumbnail Sketches”

Number Three

This “Thumbnail Sketch” is one of two thumbnail drawings I did of the same subject.

The Thumbnail drawings are set up as six boxes/thumbnail templates on a 9 x 12 inch paper to accommodate the digital scanning process for prints. I had completed this Thumbnail drawing but had not completed the entire sheet, much less had them digitally scanned. A dilemma occurred when I wanted to give this drawing, as a gift, to a close friend but couldn’t, at the time, separate it from the uncompleted sheet of six thumbnails.

I decided to create a stand-alone duplicate Thumbnail drawing, albeit with slight shape and color variations, as the gift.

Both originals are now in private collections.

See “The Thumbnail Sketches” Number One for a synopsis of this “Series of drawings”

Art notes:

All images are copyright Craig L Haupt

Postings of “The Thumbnail Sketches” are every Monday Evening.

Postings are made to:

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WordPress Blog: http://www.craiglhaupt.com

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“The Thumbnail Sketches”-Number Two

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“The Thumbnail Sketches”

Number Two

There have been a few “Thumbnail Sketch” subjects that have, over time, managed to find their way to a larger modified ‘finished’ drawing. This is one of those Thumbnail sketches.

The outlined box is 2 1/4” (56mm) square. The thumb outline measures 2” (51mm) from the bottom border to the tip of the thumb.

See “The Thumbnail Sketches” Number One for a synopsis of this “Series of drawings”

Art notes:

All images and text are copyright Craig L Haupt

Postings of “The Thumbnail Sketches” are every Monday Evening.

Postings are made to:

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“The Thumbnail Sketches” Number One

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“The Thumbnail Sketches”

Number One

Way, way, back when, I had a small simple sketch (doodle) of a face that I liked. Every time I reviewed my earlier sketch’s, I saw this “face” and as much as I liked it, I couldn’t seem to develop it into a finished drawing.

Over time, I also noticed that I started to accumulate other small subject’s in the sketchbooks that never found a home as a finished drawing.

During my tenure as an art teacher, I created a ditto, called a “Thumbnail Sketch Sheet” (with a drawing of a thumb to one side of the title and a nail to the other side). Beneath were four outlined squares for my students to create four different ideas for the current art lesson. One of which would be used for their final composition. The other three were tucked away in their file folder, also never to find a home.

After years of an ‘on again/off again’ mission to find a home for these doodles, there came an evening, four years ago, when I remembered the Thumbnail sketch sheet and wa-la, an idea, I traced my thumb for a pattern and found a home for my “misfit” doodles.

The outlined box surrounding the thumb is 2 1/4” (56mm) square. The thumb outline is enlarged from my original thumb size to accommodate a small drawing, but it still only measures 2” (51mm) from the bottom border to the tip of the thumb.

While these postings of the “Thumbnail Sketches” will not be in any chronological order, this first post is that initial “face” sketch that started me on this road.

Art notes:

All images and text are copyright Craig L Haupt

Postings of “The Thumbnail Sketches” are every Monday Evening.

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“The Ukazoo Art Exhibit”-Two of Nine

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“The Ukazoo Art Exhibit”

Second of the Nine Oil Paintings displayed

“Eye to Eye”

October, 2012

16” x 20” Oil on Board

Besides the Nine Oil paintings on display at the Ukazoo Exhibit, there were 23 additional Pen & Ink/Watercolor/ Color pencil drawings called “Thumbnail Sketches”. These finished drawings, only 2 1/4” x 2 1/4” (Five inches framed) are selected doodles taken from my sketchbooks, that although I liked the design, most have not been developed into larger, more involved, pieces of art work. One of these doodles, Eye to Eye, from October, 2006, I periodically debated if it would become a “Thumbnail Sketch” or a painting. The recent progression of learning to paint with oils cemented the decision to develop this design into a painting.

I give a nod of thanks to the “Studio Thursday Painters” group I belong to. Continually watching their wonderfully created art projects every Thursday evening and listening to their kind words of support as I tackled the learning process of various oil techniques was important in this early phase of the yet still unknown Ukazoo art exhibit.

There is still the reminder of the upcoming new project.

Don’t know if I should repeat:

“COMING, NEW PROJECT, KEEP TUNED FOR THIS EXCITING EVENT”

I could also add to the flashing lights, musical fanfare, and confetti of last weeks text:

SOME FIREWORKS as I shout,

“GET READY FOR THE NEXT BIG EVENT”

Again, this is difficult for me to make such a loud announcement, so I will again softly say, please keep following my journey, more neat art stuff is on the way.

Art notes:

All images and text are copyright Craig L Haupt

Postings of “Ukazoo Journey” are every Monday Evening.

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Blog: http://www.craiglhaupt.com – “Journey to Ukazoo”

See “Slide One” for a brief synopsis.