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Jul 01

Venetian View

By Esther Architecture, Pen and Ink, Realism, Watercolor

Watercolor, pen and ink
9.5″x4″

Jun 06

St Louis Cathedral

By Esther Architecture, Pen and Ink, Realism

Watercolor, pen and ink
7.5″x11.5″

May 27

Jackson Square

By Esther Architecture, Landscape, Pen and Ink, Realism, Watercolor

Watercolor, pen and ink
10″ x 12.75″

May 14

Large scale watercolor, pen and ink of the Grand Rapids, Michigan skyline by Esther BeLer Wodrich

Visiting ArtPrize 2013

By Esther Architecture, Landscape, Pen and Ink, Realism, Watercolor

Watercolor, pen and ink
24″x30″

Timelapse and more can be found here.

May 11

#The100DayProject, Week 5

By Esther Architecture, In Progress, Pen and Ink, Realism, Watercolor

My friends David and Jean at Diamond Willow Photography are geniuses with a camera. David was generous in helping me clean up the photos from the days of ink, which he then put into a small time-lapse movie for me for test purposes. Here’s the demo:

In spite of less time than usual this week, the watercolors definitely make it feel like a lot of progress took place. I’ll let the art speak for itself.

Day 29

Day 30

Day 31

Day 32

Day 33

Day 34

Day 35 – Rest Day

Apr 13

Adventure into #The100DayProject

By Esther Architecture, In Progress, Realism

Part I

My friend Dorothy at The Pen and Barbell invited me to join in #The100DayProject put on by The Great Discontent, which was to start Monday, April 6. As usual, my initial reaction was something along the lines of “Aint no one got time for that!” but thankfully my competitive spirit prevailed and I rose to the challenge. The nature of my life does not allow me to create something new every day and also have time to sleep at night so I chose to use the time to create a large scale work that would double as my 2015 ArtPrize submission.

Before starting the project I was not sure what I would submit for ArtPrize this year, but I knew I wanted to work in the style of the Architecture Series. I’ve chosen to create a large artwork (22″Hx28″W) of part of downtown Grand Rapids from a photo I took on my trip there to attend the opening weekend of my first ArtPrize, in 2013, where I was privileged to exhibit Golden Gate Bridge at WestCoast Coffee. The great thing about whittling away at it every day is the ability to better see and document the process. And, the kids saw my t-square and asked me why I have a pick ax. That was pretty awesome.

The pencil portion of the artwork is fairly light so not ideal for taking photos, but hopefully you can “get the picture”.