I'm continuing my work in Danny Gregory's
Sketchbook Skool. This week's lessons are with Kate Johnson -- and
we're using sketchbooks to sketch various nature sketches. Though we
were asked to try birds, with 5 outdoor cats, I fear putting
up a bird feeder - my 5 are very good hunters ...so that means taking
photos of birds or observing birds is relegated to those times I visit
my neighbors. Instead of a bird, I chose to sketch my 3-legged cat
Pepper when he was a kitten. Once an outdoor cat, after his injured
leg, he now resides indoors.
Been
a busy time here ... I"m working on a Memoir Writing Class, teaching
watercolor and have been enrolled in Sketchbook Skool and getting back
to my sketching. It's helping to focus more on the lines rather than
the paint .. and in retraining my eyes to SEE and OBSERVE.
This is a quick sketch done in pen and washes (done outside of class!! LOL). Drawn from a photo provided by Dreama (dreamatolleperry.com/).
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Oxford Barn
Watercolor
Journal
Continuing my
watercolor journal work. Most of the hay has been collected from the
fields by now -- but every once in a while, I'll pass a farm that still
has their rolls out in the field.
As
part of our assignment for Sketchbook Skool, we had to do a week of
selfies -- some from our image in a mirror, some from photographs, some
as contour drawings with a single line, and one from imagination.
I
have always avoided drawing faces - fearing my lack of sketching
ability would offend whomever I was attempting to capture. As myself as
subject, this week of learning had me in a world of self-discovery,
awareness, appalled at all the wrinkles and sags I found, and hysterics.
I don't think I've had such a good laugh in a long time!
My favorite is the one I did from memory -- (large - far right) ... I could easily forget all those age lines!
Melville Park
Watercolor - Plein Air
Sketchbook Journal
While
visiting my mom a week ago, my friends Joan and Susan kindly took me to
a local park to do some plein air sketching. We sat on the bank of
this wonderful lake and painted....
It was a wonderful afternoon spent with friends and an introduction to a place I'd never been!
I'm
participating in Danny Gregory's Sketchbook Skool -- and our assignment
is to do a 'fast' painting with one medium (I chose watercolor), and
then go back for a more meditative, slow approach to the same subject
using a different medium (I chose pen). I love the effect of the
'off-placed' lines and washes ...
I've
been in New York visiting my family. The weather was incredibly mild!
I returned to North Carolina to temperatures in the 90s with heat
indices over 100 -- hot and humid -- whew. Sure miss having the windows
open and the ocean breeze keeping us wonderfully cool.
