Bob Witte

  • Darkness

    Darkness

    So, it is hard to get a really dark value in watercolor. I’ve decided to stop here before I break it with fiddling around. Testing with colored paper, I think a white mat and black frame is best to highlight lights in darkness. Thanks to Bob Witte for the drawing technique, it was for portraits, Continue reading

  • Portrait Class

    Portrait Class

    I had the opportunity to take a portrait class with Bob Witte this week.  Faces are not too difficult if you want to represent a generic human. However, individual faces grow distinct by the smallest of details.  If you miss the distance between the eyes, you miss the individual. In this class we used photo Continue reading

About Me

I am a student of the Word and the World around us. These TWO BOOKS, World and Word or Nature and Scripture are the focus of these reflections. I am a retired pastor and a practicing artist and writer, now living in LaCrosse, WI, between the bluffs to the East and the Mississippi to the West. David E. Carlson

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