Category Archives: art night

first painting of 09

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: February 23, 2009
during one art-night awhile back, my friend jan (john) was looking through my sketch book picking out the pages he liked best.  among a couple others he chose this as one of the drawings he liked: he said it reminded him of joan miro. i suppose i can see the connection.  although that wasn’t the [...]
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5 more art night sketches

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: July 18, 2008
i love the paper in this book.
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11 art night sketches + 1 spankin new painting

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: May 11, 2008
here’s some sketches from my art night book. the last time i posted stuff from this book was back in january . so these have all been done since. i usually try to do one every sunday. they’re all done with a 7b graphite pencil and a white charcoal pencil. [...]
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new sketch book

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: January 14, 2008
i got a cool new sketch book at “stationers” in hillcrest the dimensions are 5.5″ X 8.25″. it’s made of butcher paper and string, with a corrugated paper cover. pretty cool. i did a few sketches in it last night at art night. here they are:
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new drawings, non-photo blue

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: October 29, 2007
here’s a few art night drawings. the first 2 are from a couple weeks ago and the last is from last night. that star has a couple butts on it this one’s a little hard to see because it’s non-photo blue on chip board. i don’t usually draw like this but…i don’t know. felt [...]
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new from my sketchbook

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: September 12, 2007
these sketches were all drawn at art night*. first lets meet my sketchbook: it says hello. the most recent one (from this past sunday) i usually draw in non-photo blue pencil but i didn’t bring any instrumentation this art night. so joeygold let me borrow a ticonderoga hb #2 (which i only had to sharpen once, and it [...]
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