 I am holding a FREE Giveaway over at my Women, Words and Works Blog, and invite you to participate Kathy Shell Win this The Giveaway Prize, for your teenage girl or yourself. Have you tried audio books as a sleep aid, or for the opposite effect, to help stay alert while driving long distances or to help reduce the monotony of long stretches of treadmill exercise? Breaking Dawn / by Stephenie Meyer Author Stephenie Meyer DVD’s Audio Book Summary “To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life - first discovered in TWILIGHT, then scattered and torn in NEW MOON and ECLIPSE - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed . . .forever?" To enter this FREE Giveaway competition, click Here -> Giveaway, Breaking Dawn  Draw some long smooth steady strokes horizontally across a sheet of paper; freehand, do not use a ruler. Draw each line with on sweep of the pencil. Try pencil in position B or D.   With your drawing board in position and your B pencil sharpened, you are ready to begin. Practice the warm up exercises shown here to get the feel of the pencil. Use firm sweeping pencil movements for these lines and strokes. At first, your lines will not look much like the examples given here, but with a little practice you will soon be able to draw them with reasonable success.  Draw circles. Swing in big circles, use pencil position B or E  Make many circles, fill pages of practice paper.  Soon yours will be smooth and round.  Then swing the circle the other way. Lesson 1 continues, with the next blog post, here with more drawing strokes, then shapes and forms. However, before I do more art lessons I need to duck over to my art slim blog as I have been asked ,to give some quick weight loss tips. That is not actually a subject I cover, as I am more for steady balanced lifestyle of healthy portion controlled eating and exercise. I do bring this subject up in the art’s pages as I come from a family of creative artistic people and all those I knew aside from my sister and myself, did themselves a great deal of harm by neglecting their bodies health through a life of sedentary work due to an obsession with their art. Artist's can be healthy and creative but it requires learning life Balance, something I am constantly working at. Hold the pencil firmly but lightly 2" to 3" above the point. Never grip the pencil tightly. In drawing your hand needs to be lose to move freely over the whole paper so you work with sweeps of your hand and arm. Drawing skill used to lead to work in the Commercial Art field illustrating products for example best wrinkle cream, these days, most of the commercial art fieldwork of that nature is done, with cameras and Photoshop technology and drawing skills have again become the domain of the fine artist. Practice these hand positions; I will give you some pencil movement exercises next. "Happy drawing."  Position B/ This is good for Shading. .  Position C/ here you guide your hand with this finger.  Position D/ Hand resting on the backs of the finger.  Position E/ Hold pencil more loosely than for writing.  The Artist’s Way of Holding the Pencil. Position A/ Gliding on the little finger. Hold the pencil firmly but lightly two make sure your hand is 2 to 3 inches away from the point and you do not have a vice like grip on it, as that would restrict free movement and while it might allow you to write it prevents the flowing movement across the page required to draw well. Position A shows the artist resting the little finger on the paper and holding the pencil loosely between thumb and the top two fingers then drawing by sliding the hand along the paper guided in the distance away from the paper by the little finger. If you are covering a small area, you can just swing the hand, from the wrist, if covering a larger area, swing the arm and slide the pencil along using this little finger as a guide. If you are working in a studio space with water, faucets so you can clean up easily, you can test these pencil-holding techniques out using charcoal sticks. Practice makes perfect. It is a myth to believe that we are born talented. We may born, with the desire within us to apply ourselves to things we love, learn and practice harder at some things than others, less interested in them, might do and so we become talented. Every one of us has a strong creative urge, we are all, artistic. Some of us have just developed these skills, more than, others. If you want to become an artist, you can. You do not need to be talented to start, you need to have the desire, to learn and practice. it is your teacher who needs to have the talent to show how, explain why, and constructively critique the students work, in order for you to advance. I hope you gain what you are needing from these art lessons and Kathy Shell is available as your tutor, for on line, art tuition advice if you would l like to go further than these lessons can take you. 
Try the various methods show here and get someone test your grip, if the pencil is tugged by the free end, it should be able to be withdrawn from your hand. Your firm grip should only be firm enough to hold a pencil without any counter force, still in your hand; it should not be so tight as to stop an external force from removing the pencil from your grasp. It is easier to master this if you are a beginner than if you have been holding a pencil incorrectly to draw for a long time. There are lot’s of advantages to being a beginner and learning the right way, the first time. The way you hold a pencil to write is very different to the way you hold it to draw. You will find some positions suit certain pencil marks more than others do. When writing you only make short hand movements in drawing your pencil moves all over the paper and you may be swinging your entire arm, not just your hand. We will be learning now to do free sweeping movements across paper using your not only your hand but your arm, now you are really needing all those newspapers and scrap papers you have been collecting to practice free movements with the pencil and varied pencil holding positions. The best, natural sleeping pills I know is going to bed with a fantastic feeling of inner satisfaction from knowing I have completed an art pursuit that leaves me feeling creatively satisfied. I hope you all achieve this feeling J Practice, Practice, Practice! Kathy Shell is available as your tutor, for on line, art tuition advice. In the next lesson, I will describe these pencil-holding positions. It is important to get the beginner lessons down pat, regardless of where you are at, beginner, intermediate level or advanced, it still always pays to check if you have learned the basics correctly as even a slight improvement in pencil grip position will improve your drawing ability.       
Arrange your position so that the edge of the drawing board is resting against the edge of the table and the base of the drawing board in your lap. In this position, you can move your arm and hand freely. Some people prefer to work with the drawing board resting flat on the table, but this is a cramped position that prevents full freedom of movement. Sometimes I use a tilting drawing table and I stand in front of this or wok from a tall drafting stool. Fasten the drawing paper to the board with drawing tacks, clamps or masking tape. It is a pleasant surface to work on if you place 2 to 3 sheets of paper under the work paper to cushion it. Any clean paper can be uses as padding. This makes a softer surface that accepts the pencil well and prevents any dints or marks appearing in the board, which might then affect further drawings. Remember all those paper advertisements for diet supplements and store sales that come in the mail can now double as your practice paper for drawing techniques, and you can save the pure, clean, acid free paper for the finished work. . Practice, Practice, Practice! Kathy Shell is available as your tutor, for on line, art tuition advice. 
Be prepared to use up a lot of paper in your practice sessions. I once asked an, experienced artists I was having private tuition with, to show me how to do something. When he showed me, I exclaimed in glee that ‘I now knew how to do that’. He quickly ‘put me in my place’ by telling me that ’40 years of doing that is how you learn to master it’. I went home and every night used up every sheet of the newspaper, practicing the technique over the top of the news advertisements, acnepril reviews and comics,until I had mastered it. Practice, Practice, Practice! Kathy Shell is available as your tutor, for on line, art tuition advice.  Lesson One ` Drawing ~ Getting started, Drawing Board and T-square. Here is the drawing board with drawing paper in position. Use the T-square only for making boarder lines.Note; do not use the T-square for drawings, do all drawing freehand. Getting started in drawing is a very simple matter. Pick out the materials you need and begin right away with warm-up exercises I will be showing soon. These will be the same drawing, exercises, I have been doing since I was 13 years old. lol, 50 years of experience behind me in doing my drawing exercises, these are just like practicing the scales for a musician. As you read the lessons, do the exercises I show you, done in sequence they wull be easier than filling out no exam life insurance papers J. You can if you wish, enrol with me for private on line lessons and I will constructively analyse your drawing lessons. Lesson One, Drawing, Materials, Erasers. 05/28/2010
 Lesson One ` Drawing `Materials` Erasers Use a soft firm eraser for erasing pencil lines. An eraser, which is too hard, will scratch the paper and ruin it for drawing purposes. Use a very soft art gum or soap eraser for cleaning up the paper. In an emergency if you do not have a rubber in the studio briefcases, you can use a piece of fresh (it must be fresh), white bread, as a substitute eraser for cleaning up all smudges and finger marks after finishing a drawing or removing the construction lines in a water colour painting.  That is one of my favorite quotes by, Eleanor Roosevelt. How do people who patronize others, make you feel? A man and woman demanded, rather than asked, to see my art work, over several days. When I put on a private showing, just for them, they said they would return when they were ready, (like I am to put it out on demand any time they ask), and she acted patronizing to me telling me, ‘how to sell my art work’. I had already told her I had owned and run an award-winning, gallery. I am obviously not an amateur so I did not like the assumption that my exhibition time was theirs to command, or that I needed to be told, how to sell art when I am, as I had informed them, now retired, to a hobby business level, due to my carer duties. Then the husband met up with my husband on the beach this morning, where my man was happily fishing and so proud of his efforts, having caught 10 small whiting with a small rod and light line and 1 large whiting on his first try with the new heavier line I bought him yesterday. This man, through his choice of patronizing words, made my husband feel, as if he was not an angler’s bootlace. He also ordered, my husband to throw back the one fish he caught, saying ‘it was undersized’, yet it was the same size, all the other anglers there were catching and keeping. I believe he was just picking on my man, because I was not there to protect him. I can only think that both members of that couple, gain some sort of superior feeling by speaking to others as if they were somehow inferior, using a patronizing way of expressing themselves. He knew my man was like a child in looking to others to guide him so he took advantage, bullied, and strived to make him feel inferior. I had politely ignored the patronizing of my art, that’s what I get, for putting major art work outside a caravan, I once had an art teacher tell me that if you placed a Sir Hans Hysen landscape in an amateur art show, most people would have no idea what they were looking at.  I express my feelings here in my blog. If the couple I’m referring to, read my blog and recognise themselves through the eyes of those they have been trying to act superior to, then that will give me a tad of satisfaction. Mostly I hope to help other artist, recognize that when people strive to put you down in any way, it is a reflection on them and their life situation, nothing whatever to do with you and your art. Keep your head up and do not let them spoil your beautiful creative day. I will not I be showing these people my art again, they can turn up with a thick wallet and beg to see it (they said they will return) and I will not have anything available, to show them. I have the sin of pride, lol. Most artists have this, it is what creates works of quality, I could question why pride, is considered a sin? Artists rarely work just for ‘the money’, we are motivated by ideals, though if we earn our income doing what we love, as I have been able to do, then that is wonderful. I have refused, to sell to people before, (not often, they have to have acted very objectionably to me, for me to do this), but on previous occasions I have told people, ‘Sorry, I have nothing available for sale today’, and I have never regretted the few times I have done this. I have fond memories of every piece of art I have created, but also extremely fond memories of the client who appreciated my work enough to have fallen in love with it and bought it. Seeing their appreciation of my work has been how I have been able to part with something as personal as my paintings have all been to me. Tonight I go fishing with my man and protect him from nasty two-legged groper, sharks, lol J, because his welfare and happiness is my major creative activity these days, work I do with love and pride.  | Kathy Shell on Facebook What is RSS
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