June 2009 Overview

June was another mixed bag of drawings. One of my favorites was my pill bottle from when I was sick. So I used this as my overview using the techniques from my weekend class. The overall exercise is to take one item and draw it twenty different ways and frame each drawing. Another technique not shown before is to use only three colored pencils (canary yellow, magenta and true blue) to make all your colors. I love this exercise and thought about that as a challenge for myself going forward. Another post that I liked was the baby fairy. Check out the month if you have time.

May 2009 Overview

May was another month I found difficult to decide what to do for an overview. I am enjoying the techniques I learned in my weekend workshop so I decided to redraw the J. Jill jacket in the different techniques. I drew a different fairy at the wishing well mixing colored pencil and watercolor pencil. My favorite inchie overview was this month. There were many fairies that I was pleased with also. Check out the month for varied drawings.

Spirit of the sketch Day 3

This was an assignment from yesterday. The assignment was to pick something up outside, one natural thing and one man made and then write something about it. Click on the picture to see the writing.

The drawings above and below are the last thing we did which was to do a quick sketch of everyone in the class.

This ends the weekend workshop. I have five more days to go until the year of drawing everyday is up. Since I am back to posting the same day, I'll be doing that all week but now later in the day, probably the evening.

For a fabulous overview of the class check out Emma Pod's blog. A great description and great art of what when on...but no pictures of Eros...maybe next time...

Spirit of the Sketch Day Two

My favorite work of the day. Different ways to approach the sketch

Good Pig!! I fell in love with this pig and the teacher gave him to me! He is so very, very cool. Lucky me!! Thanks Marilyn!!!

Spirit of the Sketch Friday, Day One

Last year I took a class at PCC called Spirit of the Sketch. This is one of the things that started me on my drawing quest. I enjoyed it so much I decided to take it again. I thought it was appropriate as I draw towards the end of my year of drawing daily.

The teacher Marilyn Reaves

A returning student... Her name is Eros

A quick sketch of a wooden bird

An exercise in contour drawing

There was much more drawing but this is all I wanted to post. Stay tuned for day two and three.