Okay, so I finished one more city drawing.
It's got a bit of wonkiness to it, but that's part of what I like about it.
It's also the one that is most "tight".
Check it out and see what you think, and leave me a comment or criticism.
I think I figured out something I like doing/drawing, that might make a good series.
It's a city scene.
Not like the previous bridge, but like what I worked on for our church's next sermon series. See left.
I actually made 2 dawings.
One which is more abstracted, from imagination.
5x7" colored pencils and pen on sketchbook paper
One that was based off a real place, using a picture for reference, but using quite a bit of "artistic license".
6.75 x9" colored pencil and pen on paper
What do you think?
Would you want it up in your wall?
I've worked on this painting for a long time. It started out in my mind as something that would be a face, but the difficulties and series of unexpected results in the early stages of preparing the canvas made me feel as if it had to become a cityscape of sorts. Inspired by one of photographs, and just pushed on by a emotional color choice, I finally finished this mixed media piece.
It took long, and I struggled through much of it, and had some great learning experiences because of it, but I'm just glad it's done.
I'm still not very much in love with it. What do you think?
I can handle any criticism, or praise you send my way.
This time, it was done at a church we visited. The Covenant Live Church.
I drew a couple people but this is my favorite of the sketches.
This kinda thing has been the extent of my work lately.
Nothing finished til today([more about that on the next post].
But I get little drawings in here and there.
I imagine with our move, the drawings and painting will dwindle down as I pack instead.
I've also been working toward my own personal artist/illustrator website, and will make that public very soon. Thanks to my wonderful husband and his awesome programming skills!
A couple posts ago, I posted a detail, and here's the finished piece.
If you don't know what this is, it is called scratchboard. You work in the opposite then drawing with a pen. You scratch away the white.
This particular board is made by ampersand, and it's a black claybord. It's nice because it's not as flimsy as some of the other scratchboards I worked with in the past.
I worked based off a photo using artistic license to add or delete as needed for composition.
Have you ever tried this?
It's a lot of fun.
5x7 claybord black/ scratchboard
I you have a son, you know that being borderline destructive comes with the territory. You can also identify with how to wanting to find ways to use that "spirit" for good.
In my case, I'm also looking for ways to incorporate it into art possibilities.
Anyway, a few months ago, I came across a journal called "wreck this journal".
A bit odd at first, but really interesting once you give it some thought. The idea is that sometimes we're too uptight with how we do art, and it's good to loosen up and do some "wrecking". In the process, you might come across some really cool results.
When Willik saw my journal, and I explained a bit to him about it, and he'd really wanted to try it, but we had not had our chance.
That chance finally arrived when we got to stay home from church this weekend, cause he had the stomach virus. Of course, missing church is never a priority on my list, but at least getting to spend quality time with my son makes up for it.
I pulled out the journal, and he was thrilled to do it. He was particularly thrilled with the thought of being able to "wreck it" and "that is okay!" cause it's the "wreck this journal" journal. We did about 6 of the pages; everything from burning a page(scary), to chewing on a page.
Amongst those we also colored this entire page, as requested. He did the design, which I'd asked him to repeat, since he'd done one like it on another sheet recently.
It was really fun just sitting and coloring together, and enjoying a joint artistic moment.
With this brainiac boy, I don't know how many chances I'll have of this, so I'll take all that I can.
I sketched Phoenix the other day, while he was doing his homework. It turned out to be a pretty good drawing session for me.
I was reminded of how good it is to draw from a "live" model, and one that moves as much as him makes for some pretty short poses, and some pretty challenging angles, and that is always nice to incorporate, plus it helps me capture a moment in time because "Everyday Matters" as I've learned form Danny Gregory.
Willik,, I drew the day after.
He was in trouble, and therefore sitting on his own, quietly. It was easier to draw, though I don't think it was as good of a drawing. when out of trouble, and he went and drew too.
Journaling my boys with sketches is a great gift I've been given, and I need to do it more often!
