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Ethiopian Adoption Connection is a wonderful grassroots organization working to reunite adoptees with their Ethiopian families. Recently they have begun publishing blog posts listing entries in their database y region or date or age, etc. Check out the first post! በ ኢትዮጵያ የሚገኙ ወላጆቻቸዉን የሚፈልጉ የጉድፈቻ (ማደጎ) ልጆች ዉጪ ሀገር ለጉዲፈቻ (ማደጎ)የተሰጠ ልጅዎትን ከፈለጉ በእኛ ድህረገጽ ይመልከቱ Some of the adopted children adopted before 2005 from Addis Ababa looking for their Ethiopian families. Search our website if you are looking for your child adopted abroad. Please share and help reunite families! http://ethiopianadoptionconnection.org/children-adopted-from-addis-ababa-region-before-2005-searching-for-family/

There is a new searching resource for adoptees, APs, and natural families in Ethiopia. Please check this site out. Ethiopian Adoption Connection "Our Purpose Ethiopian Adoption Connection was created with the goal of matching Ethiopian birth families with their children adopted abroad. Our priority is helping those who cannot search or who have searched and been unsuccessful."

Here is my first self portrait. Here is the contour self portrait. Here is  my final self portrait.

Here are two different views of the same crumpled, paper bag. Paper bag-graphite 1 point perspective Paper bag-conte crayon bird's-eye-view

Here are my 1, 2, and 3 point perspective drawings, as well as a bird's-eye-view and bug's-eye-view set. 1 point perspective 2 point perspective 3 point perspective bird's-eye-view bug's eye view

This week's drawing was inspired by the creole dancer illustration done by Henri Matisse. http://www.henri-matisse.net/cutouts/j.html I really liked the whimsical shape that created the dancer, and I tried to emulate that with my own illustration; Man Catching a Fish This was done using two color schemes simultaneously. The primary color scheme is present with the yellow background, and the red and blue hues are at their most intense; this was done to draw the viewer to the man's torso and fish's body. I chose to keep the shapes of the two images similar, mostly for a symmetrical look in the middle of the painting. The remainder of the image is done in an analogous color scheme, using the area from yellow to blue. I focused on lighter value greens and blues so that the eye would focus even more on the fish and the body. The single brown line portraying the fishing rod allows the eye to go from the fisherman to his prize.

Here is my value study on newsprint done with charcoal. Here is the final collage. This was fun to do but quite hard.

Here are my rubbings. lego plate-charcoal wicker basket-4B graphite burka rug-charcoal same image-grey scale applied alfalfa arranged underneath paper-conte crayon Here are the prints. pine cone side-ink Northern white cedar leaves-ink broccoli crown-ink pine cone top-ink maple tree bark-ink all three mediums: broccoli, cedar leaf, pine cone-ink

Part 1: Here are several gesture drawings to get warmed up, all done with a 4B graphite. 16 assorted line drawings on newsprint. India ink exaggerated line quick contour calligraphic quick contour Red sharpie whimsical implied blind contour slow contour implied lyrical 2B graphite cross contour 1 implied cross contour 2 exaggerated Extra fine ink cross contour1 basic contour cross contour2 implied Part 2: 5 drawings Basic contour still life on newsprint Slow contour-extra fine ink Quick contour-india ink Cross contour-2B Final basic contour-extra fine ink