<Monday, June 16th, 2008> [Amy]
Double digits
Until two weeks ago, I hadn't drawn anything in years. Now I've done ten drawings in eleven days. I'm not equally proud of all of them, but I am proud of their number. I'm even more pleased that I've almost managed, thus far, to keep the promise I made to do a drawing a day. I missed Saturday, but that's because we had my brother, sisters, niece and nephew over. Family is more important than art.
Tonight's drawing is a colored pencil of a yellow calla lily from my garden. Not a success, in my mind, but a failed experiment that taught me several things.
One: florals are infinitely more compelling subject matter when larger than life. The drawing's two feet tall, while the actual flower and leaf's less than a foot.
Two: colored pencil doesn't lend itself to two foot tall drawings of a single flower and leaf. The hatch marks are distracting, and I had to keep stopping to sharpen the pencils. I will go back to Michael's tomorrow and buy my favorite medium--pastels!
Three: colored pencil doesn't ERASE. The calla leaf is spotted white. I was counting on being able to erase spots from the leaf after I colored it. Oh, well.
Did I mention that I GREW that flower?
.:.
Next step will be what watercolorist Grandma Runge talked about for getting white spots in this sort of medium -- you color the negative spaces. Now I can SAY that just fine -- don't have a clue about how to do it :-)
--NJB (2008.06.16) |
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