Various offerings from the past week

Good Pig

Out and about with my moleskine

At a meeting, various items on the table and a co-worker

Delicious cherries from a co-worker. The background is painted with juice from the cherries.

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.

Watercolor Pencil Class dropout

I dropped out of Cathy's watercolor pencil class due to being overwhelmed. Then I got sick and I know I would never have been able to keep up. I did try one more piece of fruit. The one on the left is on a piece of paper taken from a watercolor moleskine.

Exercise for watercolor pencil workshop

I am not happy with this but this is my drawing for yesterday.

Different Strokes

Here is my entry into the different strokes challenge. I am not sure if it will appear on the site as I am not sure I sent it correctly. For some wonderful paintings check out the site.