Anyway, this drawing came from the following picks in this order: River, Fence, Cells, Leaf, Squirrel, Map.
Primarily I'm a painter and printmaker - but I want to improve my drawing skills. This is my sketch blog - where I document my drawing practice. I'm working through Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists by Carla Sonheim, as well as other drawing books.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Random Pick
Anyway, this drawing came from the following picks in this order: River, Fence, Cells, Leaf, Squirrel, Map.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Machines
I was vaugely annoyed to realize how similar my one with the scissors is to one of the examples in the book. oops. darn examples. Messin' with my creativity.
I'm sure someone somewhere has invented the swiss army phone already - but I personally would really like to own one.
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Persimmons and Peppercorns
The next drawing lab was collage. I chopped up a Vegetarian Times and made this. So I've recently switched from oils to acrylics for my "real" paintings - and looking at the examples in the book for this lab - I realized that this means I can *paint* in my sketchbook now - which was a very exciting discovery.
This was fun to do - I secretly love doing huge messy fast painting - but I don't love the way it looks, so I don't do it often - now that I can paint on paper I'll probably let myself play this way more often. So the bottom layer is acrylic, then I glued in the collage elements and then added the bird and some texture using oil pastels. (also something that I love playing with, but hardly ever use - again because I feel the results don't look good enough, even though I love doing it. Have I mentioned that this drawing lab thing has been great in that way - I get an excuse to play with all the fun stuff and not worry too much about the result being "show able" It's really nice. :)