compound joint– what should be

This is made of lap joints and bridle joints and completely fancy. The red marks indicate the “waste.” This is Jay’s example from his 15 minute demonstration. !   lap joints. Will you look at the straight sawing of this wood? He always makes it look so easy. (wait til you…

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daily drawing 10/6/2014

I did some gardening today and these are my tools. Exciting, I know. I was busy today with work, and if all I did was this in the art making business, I’m a happy girl! I am not losing momentum. I am not losing momentum. I am not losing momentum….

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daily drawing 10/5/2014

Well, here’s my little drawing from the BART trip on the way home from dance practice. Nothing exciting happening on the train. No news is good news. I did some woodworking too, but that’s another post.

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daily drawing 10/4/14

This afternoon, I shared with my artist support group about how shy I am about these blog posts and that the things I tend to post are things that are safe and not likely to offend. I don’t like or want to offend, but I also crave honesty in my…

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daily drawing 10/3/2014

Long day at work today and some of the things I saw were these little creatures. One day I’ll do a proper scientific drawing rather than these silly contour line drawings. The last one approaches such a drawing, but the proportion aren’t completely right. Ah well. but hey, I drew three…

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daily drawing 10/2/2014

The face does not look like me and the rest are just as questionable, but this was using my non-dominant hand (left). However I am very pleased with how it all came out. I went to a drawing marathon a couple of weeks ago by the bay area models guild.…

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bridle joint

In the third class of the semester, I made a bridle joint. And here’s my drawing of it. Here’s the real thing: View of the underside: I love it when all the lines meet up. So satisfying. Top view:  You can see where I initially pounded the mallet to the top but…

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daily drawing 10/1/2014

I’m a little awkward and so are the people I draw. I am still trying to get into the habit of drawing a day, but sometimes it does not come so naturally, and comes off rather awkwardly.. like today. I was actually working on a 6 panel comic strip for…

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daily drawing 9/30/2014 and lap joint

So here’s a terribly not to scale and freehand drawing of a lap joint I learned to do in class a few weeks ago. I initially wanted a reminder of what I did in class, as in: step one: start with wood! step two: draw center line, measure out the width…

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drawing 9/29/2014

I was a bit busy today after work playing with this site, putting a new page in, so this is as good as today’s drawing will get. Not bad for a blind contour drawing. Almost instant gratification. For now this is a good start. But I want to do drawing…

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