Embracing creativity as an Artist, Coach and Teacher
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Here are two versions of the same chocolate bar wrapper. The one on the left was done at my fairly methodical pace. I challenged myself with the one on the right to limit myself to a drawing time of 10-15 minutes. Done was good. I painted them at the same time. Which do you like better?
I had a trip coming up and I wanted to flesh out my existing travel palette from its existing nine colors to twenty. I have several versions of various hues made by different manufactures. I have several tubes of the same color of yellow, Hansa Yellow Medium. How different is that from my more regular Hansa Yellow Light? What would make for a variety of greens, good sky colors, and colorful walls, and flowers in the garden? This is a color chart testing out 19 hues.
I took a workshop over the weekend with the fabulous and very talented Eilen Sorg. The project was of this rooster. The first day was spent inking and watercoloring. The second day was spent starting in on the colored pencil magic. The watercolor and ink alone always looks surprisingly good, but once the colored pencil is added on top, it's amazing how realistic and alive the pictures become. I have lots of work left on this rooster, but it is definitely coming along!
I challenged myself to draw a picture of my rapidly growing puppy. This is just pen and ink. It took me about three or four hours to do. I love the quizzical expression Aussies have when they tilt their heads like this.
More practice for my online course on Nature Journaling. The idea here was to work with lines to show volume and form in a two dimensional medium.
This is a graphite botanical illustration. It was an exercise found on draw space.com.
This is another exercise from the online course, "Beginning a Nature Journal." The purpose here was to practice hatching and crosshatching to create three dimensional forms and to give a sense of volume. What I learned from this is avocados are a challenge to draw and have look right with just a fountain pen.