Hi Henry. I enjoyed your "Mug Shot" drawing and the shading showing the effect of light vs. shadow on a cylindrical object. Did you shade with pencil or with charcoal? Your "Mug Shot" is a lot better than the 'mug shot' the state put on my latest I.D./driver's license. Keep up the great work. (Grandpa)
- Grandma/grandpa on June 29, 2022
Hi Henry. These flowers are beautiful, with colorful patterns within the petals. Grandma would even like to plant some of them in her garden in spring, if that can be done! We see interesting color tones based on red, with additions of blue (or violet) and possibly other colors, producing a variety of hues. Keep up the great work!
- Grandma/grandpa G. on February 17, 2022
I can see why it was a difficult project but you did a great job
- Papa on February 17, 2022
Hi Henry. I think my comment may be a year or two late, as I remember seeing your "Bob the Turkey" artwork in a previous year and am just now reviewing it again, getting around to compliment you on it. - I detected immediately a very "wary" look in Bob's eyes. I believe he may be on guard, watching for danger, as he probably knows that Thanksgiving is next month!!! (He may be worried that he will receive an invitation to be at the next Thanksgiving dinner, possibly an invitation that can't be refused!) - I also noticed all the detail in your drawing, especially in de tail: the intricate angled lines detailing all the feathers in de tail, as compared to the carved (oops, I meant "curved", as the actual 'carving' comes later in the feast) body feathers around his abdomen. I have often seen a turkey depicted wearing a tall top hat, as you have drawn, and am just now wondering if that hat is really part of a Halloween disguise which Bob hopes will fool people into thinking that he is only going trick-or-treating (as on Halloween) disguised as a turkey, so he will NOT get that dreaded invitation to a Thanksgiving dinner in case anyone suspects he is a real turkey. - I have let my imagination roam as I view this turkey, which is a wonderful thing about art: It can free your imagination up so that you can interpret an artwork in many different ways and make it be what you would like it to be. ('Bob' probably fell asleep reading all this, so I will end here and let him dream about having a happy and SAFE Thanksgiving.) Grandma and I always enjoy the artworks you and Everett produce on Artsonia, and we look forward to viewing more of our works of art - keep up the great work!
- Roger on November 3, 2021
Great job Henry
- Papa on March 10, 2021
Hi Henry. I am looking at your perspective drawing and remembering the days when I was in grade school and was taught how to draw perspective pictures (with "vanishing points"). I especially liked drawing in perspective because it looked so much more real. Years later, when I became a teacher, I also got to teach perspective drawing to 5th and 6th grade students in art, and many of them enjoyed doing it also. I have noticed a great sense of perspective in many of your pictures, including perspective art with cars you have drawn. Since cars are not usually perfectly square or rectangular, it can be more of al challenge to draw them in perspective, but you have done it many times! (By the way, is that road you drew ready for cars? It looks as if the road might need some repair if those are "potholes" in it. I don't know if you drew that picture while in Wisconsin, but if you did, you are in the right place for it! Wisconsin, we have heard, has the third most bad roads in the nation (after New Jersey and, I think, Utah.) The potholes look very real - and DEEP! And since someone built a house right smack dab in the middle of the road back there, I guess it is not a road after all, but a driveway to that house. (Since there are no cars on that road or driveway, I am wondering if maybe the cars are all in the repair shops. :-) The trees lining the road (all correctly in decreasing size according to distance in the style of perspective drawing) look "climb-able" (is that really a word?), once you make it up the trunk, that is -- and I know how you like to climb trees. I guess you enjoy perspective drawing as much as I did - and still do!
