Jocelyn Curry

Art & Joie de Vivre

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As a retired lettering artist and illustrator, I still create a lot of visuals and have fun doing it. My website is a place I can post and share them from my Shoreline, Washington studio in my home.

Project KitchenAid

November 23, 2025

Did I need a deep plunge into a new blog site, right when such a time-consuming challenge really didn’t fit into my crowded calendar? The answer, no surprise, is “no” but at least I was able to navigate the mind-befuddling process of transferring the data from my old platform to this new, AI-enhanced version of good ol’ WordPress. My previous experience of working on good ol’ WordPress wasn’t stellar, so I’m hoping to improve my relationship with it asap. So far I have been able to upload my seasonally appropriate squash painting! But now, HOW do I get rid of “Hello World!” which was placed there by Good Ol. I’m not sure about this, but I think Good Ol’s default tips will stay on this, my First Post until I figure out how to discretely remove them without being told “This is not a good idea.” At least I got my squash up on this new site for your viewing pleasure! Happy Thanksgiving :-).

"Can we work on foreshortening?" asked one of my drawing group members on Tuesday. "Yes!" was my reply. So I went off to find something we could all draw as a foreshortened object. A quick surveying of my kitchen yielded a subject: my yellow KitchenAid mixer. Here are the results of our drawing practice:

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Our subject.
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A blind contour drawing sometimes shows remarkable accuracy even though the drawer is not concerned about perfection while making the drawing. The angles and proportions here are quite close to being correct.
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After the contour drawing, this sketch was carefully made by observing the relationships between each basic shape that made up the mixer.
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My view of the mixer was close to head on. I made this sketch as a demo while the other two watched. Obviously, I made many on-the-spot corrections without erasing. One drawer commented: "That's OK. It looks like it's moving." I'll take it!
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Careful observation and an eraser were needed to create this clean, well proportioned sketch. We all agreed that this innocent-enough project challenged each of us.
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