Two treatments of a similar sketch
Day 161 (sat 6/10) pencil and marker sketch
Tag: drawing
Day 160 (Fri 6/9)
Even if you are 4, the last day of school is awesome.
Day 159 (thurs 6/8) watercolor flower
Day 158 (Wed 6/7) The Neighbors
My favorite type of art now… this just seems way too simple to count.
This is the road behind my house (even though I don’t live in the country). We, my husband and I, call it the cat barn, because our cat years ago would go visit the cats there, but I don’t really know if there were a bunch of cats or not. I assume there were cats… he’d come back looking a bit rough and mangled… but I never actually saw any.
This afternoon the two horses were outside grazing, and it just felt… pretty.
Day 154 (Sat 6/3) an unfinished page of random people sketches
Sometimes even MY life is just to busy to get much done. Still, I’ve stuck to my goal of doing SOMETHING with art every single day this year, so far, and am really seeing progress. Thanks, everyone, for holding me accountable! I’ll add to the page another day.
Day 153 (Fri 6/2) adding watercolor to a sketch
I decided to try a bit of color on yesterday’s sketch, and wanted to try just one color. I was going to go with indigo first, but something about blue faces put me off. So I went with Daniel Smith’s Bloodstone. This is made from a mineral, no other pigments added. I purchased it expecting a deep eggplant-y purple but it’s a neutral shade, on the red or purple end of the spectrum, and lovely for bringing a loud color down just a touch. It also granulates nicely. If you don’t have this color, in my opinion it’s a really nice one to add. Right now I use it more often than any other neutral. The result:
I’m pretty happy with it. And I loved working with layers of just one color.
Canson mixed media journal, Daniel Smith Bloodstone watercolor, uniball micro deluxe pen
Day 152 (Thursday 6/1) “pen & ink” sketch
This 2017 project is really improving my sketching abilities!! There’s no way I could have done this a year ago. This, by the way, is from our day in Williamsburg, and is what most of our days out with Emmett look like! He’s a big tourist draw.
Day 151 (Wed 5/31) Trying something a little different, but only slightly
A big full page sketch. Turns out, I like the smaller ones better, and like them not filling the page. But I did enjoy the freedom this extra space gave me while working on the man and the dog. This is my husband, btw, and our Newfie, Emmett, in a pose fairly typical of our life now. I don’t think I quite captured my husband’s angle of lean. 🙂 It was pretty extreme. That’s the Sloober towel hanging out of his pocket. (you’ll have to look sloober up on the other blog, allthecrazyworld.wordpress.com)
Emmett was not being as sad as he appears… just stubborn.
Day 150 (Tues 5/30) such a cute group of tourists
I loved their arm-in-armness. These sweet little girls were walking through colonial Williamsburg while we were there Sunday, and I couldn’t help using them in my studies. I caught them just as the littlest twisted around to looked back for her parents.
Done in a VERY small Stillman and Birns watercolor sketchbook with daniel smith watercolor paints. And my favorite uniball deluxe .5 pen.
Day 144 (Wed 5/24) sketchy humans
Drawing people accurately has always been a problem for me, so I thought I’d work on a few general shapes today. I’ve always worried too much about accuracy, I think, and used a pencil, erased, adjusted, etc… ending up with stiff-as-boards not-quite-right-humans. So today I thought I’d sketch a few people I took photos of this weekend while we were at the Hampton Roads Winery. (I took the photos specifically for this purpose!)… I didn’t allow myself near my pencil. Agh, so stressful! But a very good exercise. I’m sure if I do this more often (like, a LOT) I might get a more free feeling shape. I was avoiding faces but then went for it. My people are still stiff and choppy, but I’m pleased with my beginning results. They ended up nicer than I’d anticipated. No finished art, but good quick studies. Yes, my dog is that large. And yes, that is a goat tower. The winery boasts the tallest goat tower in Virginia. 🙂 Do you love the laughing woman and baby?? That’s my grandson, and my sister-in-law (much prettier in person), and the girl seen over and over is my granddaughter.
When you just DO things, and keep doing them… you get better at them. (duh)
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