No drawing today; I got unexpectedly invited to see an odd movie before I got very far into my studio time. But I did finish this darnstar! The above picture is a scan, which gives me a chance to share my frustration with the scanner’s ability to accurately pick up certain colors, particularly that peacock/aqua blue. For comparison, see the photo below, which is much closer to the colors in real life.
pub sing
ALT: crayon and ink sketch from a photo of yesterday’s lovely pub sing. woman in red, seated, gesturing broadly with a smile, in front of two other people. none of them would recognize themselves from the photo; it was the end of a long day and I was really tired but determined to at least get something that looked like a drawing to post.
from the portrait gallery
ALT: water soluble crayon. silly portrait of a snake-like being, smiling and wearing glasses, in an oval frame.
two trees
ALT: water soluble graphite and crayon. It really is just two trees. their leaves are shapes and colors different from each other, but they overlap, and the root systems which you can see below are intertwined. the picture is decorative and simple, colors soft greens and orange-browns.
ALT: water-soluble graphite and crayon, profile of a person, short dark bobbed hair, button earring looks a bit like representation of planet Earth, orange collar. Chin raised, expression is rather skeptical, maybe even disapproving.
big bug
ALT: water-soluble crayon, mostly brown with black lines. I mean, it really could be a close-up picture of a bug. there are definitely legs, 5 of them, and even a couple of little deely bopper antennae. maybe it’s eating its way through a chunk of wood, so all the brown texture.
whine
ALT: water soluble graphite and crayon, abstract. curvy lines, something that looks like an eye giving a solid roll on one side, under some streamer things blowing straight out. on the other side a sort of hose with a complaining sort of opening. but the colors are soft shades of blue, red and green, and the lines are relaxed not agitated.
nestled
ALT: crayon and pencil drawing, abstract. a black-and-white shape nestles between green pine-tree-like shape and a re and yellow spire by blue edge. a little pair of triangles, red and blue, huddle in an opening in the red shape. I don’t know. maybe a campfire by a lake. you decide.
leverage
ALT: ink drawing, very fast and messy, depicting my afternoon recreational activity, moving a heavy chunk of brick chimney all by myself with a long crowbar. Some people just know how to have a good time.
rock and rain
ALT: crayon drawing, sort of abstract, but it really does look sort of like a boulder sitting on flat ground in a dark atmosphere full of parallel diagonal lines that certainly could represent a heavy rain. there are also some pale blobs in what would be the sky – maybe more rocks, but floating? or odd exclamatory bits of light.
eyespider 