Last week's theme for the drawing challenge was Autumn. I decided to do my drawing/watercolor on a book page that I had gesso-ed. I like the look and will probably do more (I'm gessoing up a large batch of book pages for projects for the Paper Guild Holiday sale, so I should have a fair supply).
Jeanie picked this week's theme: fur friends. I decided to draw a picture from a photo I had of Cookie; she was a great fur friend and I miss her.
This is my last sketch from the beach.
I am still on the road (having fun in Florida, postponing the reality of fall in Michigan); so I'm a week behind in my weekly drawing challenge. This week's theme is "Somewhere Else;" so I did a drawing from here (hmmm...maybe somewhere else is really back home since I'm here). Anyway, I did two beach drawings and here they are:
I left a lot of room on the bottom because I'm actually thinking of writing there (dare I call it journaling?).
The theme for this week's drawing challenge with Jeanie is "mismatched." I had all sorts of ideas for this theme, but ended up with the fairly ordinary concept of mismatched shoes.
For this week's drawing challenge, Jeanie and I are using the theme "green." As soon as she picked it, I thought of frogs and Kermit's song "It isn't Easy Being Green." I've been trying to draw from life, but this time I drew from photos. The good thing about drawing from photos is that I have a lot of photos that I think might make good drawings - and, of course, the fact that there are things that would be cool to draw that are impossible to sit and try to work in the moment with.
Instead of using my watercolor set, I used my new Inktense watercolor pencils for this. I love the intensity of the colors, but still need to work at blending.
Anyway, here are my frogs
Next week's theme is "mismatched."
Alas, I will never be organized enough to draw every day, but I'm working on giving myself a drawing project once a week. I have enticed a friend into a weekly drawing challenge (I need that sort of external assignment/stimulus).
Our theme is "floral." On Monday, I had actually made a sketch from my garden. This morning, I cut some roses and put them in a glass and brought them in the house to draw. Below are my drawings that I watercolored.
I have ben away from my studio for longer than I expected; so I'm limited in my arting. this may be a good thing for my resolve to practice drawing and watercoloring. I doubt that I'll ever achieve the "draw every day" thing, but I am going to try to draw every week. Below are photos (I'm also away from my trusty scanner) of drawings from last week.
i rarely draw, sketch, journal or use watercolors; so, imagine my surprise when I signed up for Jane LaFazio's class (10 Objects 10 Ways). I guess I wanted to dip my feet into the art journal pool and I knew Jane would be kind and encouraging. I am rather pleased with my accomplishments in today's class.
Well, Tuesday night was Meet The Artists Night; and, this year, I'm one of the artists!
It was a fun evening that started off with an inspirational talk by Cindy Lewton and then people wandering around talking to the teachers. It was social, and light and fun. It was also very cool to meet up with familiar people as well as good friends.
Wednesday was the first day of classes. I took "Play on Faces" with Cynthia Anderson. I need all the help I can get with drawing and painting faces and Cynthia provided a very comfortable and trusting environment. My faces still don't look like anyone else's in the class (no matter how hard I try, I am never tidy nor symmetrical); but, I'm happy with what I did in class. Plus, I had the bonus of sitting next to Martha in this class.
We started out by making several drawings from photos or pieces of art that we had brought along - or from our heads.
Then, we prepared canvases (or canvas boards) with paint or collage and started to draw and paint on them.
Cynthia also gave each of us a black and white printed face on watercolor paper to use as we wanted to. (in case you can't read my writing, the piece below says, "And, there, in the midst of self-imposed religious contemplations, came the liberating realization that no one would really know what she was thinking. She allowed herself to make up stories about the very self-righteous idiots she had to show respect to. They did not fare well in these visions. She did.
