Friday, January 30, 2009
drawing my Dog
Todays drawing class was very enjoyable. I took my Dog to pose for us. He did a great job! He is 15 so he is more then happy to lay there quietly. After we did a few 3 minute doggy drawings, we drew 2 other students and then she gave us a photo of a model to draw. We were given 15 minutes for each drawing.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Different Strokes from different folks drawing
I came across this fun Blog. You can see the link on my page here under links. Click it and check it out.
She posts a new photo every other Wed. of something she photographs and anyone who wants to can paint or draw it. She then posts them on her blog. I love to see all the different interpretations of the one subject.
Here is my pencil/pastel drawing of the subject this week.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
NOSE DRAWINGS
I was sitting here with my leg propped up drawing noses. I Googled " Pig noses " thinking it would be fun to draw a pig nose and came across a journal about how a guy had to put down his Guinea pig. He had a picture of his pig and he was so cute. His name was Louis. ( The Pigs name ) It started me thinking of my pigs that i had in the past. Spunky, Sherburt and Chewy. They were sweet little guys. I used to call out their names when I would come into the house and they would squeal a greeting to me. And when I would bring them my extra cuttings from the salad they would go nuts!
ANYWAY.... I was inspired to draw the handsome Louis as a memorial to him and to all handsome Guinea Pigs everywhere!
Thanks for the memories Louis!
Monday, January 19, 2009
I missed my drawing class last week because it was the day after my surgery.
I need to draw 10 mouths and two self portraits by Friday.
That shouldn't be hard. I have 3 people here that I live with, my 2 dogs and the rest I will get from photos.
The self portraits should be interesting! I have never done one.
Here are some fun photos I took while playing on my Apple computer in the photo booth. Not being able to walk really puts a stop to lots of important things and has enabled me to just do silly fun stupid things like these photos!
I started my blog and now I have been DOWN for about a week. Literally down! I had to have a minor surgery done on my right foot.
Last Feb. I stepped onto a fountain pen. You ask how the H-ll I could do that? Well, I was wearing sandals and when I drug my foot out of the car and stepped onto the driveway, I guess the fountain pen became lodged between my foot and sandal. The pen went straight into the foots arch.
The next day I went to my Doc. showed her the shattered pen and told her how much it hurt. I think she thought I was being silly because she put a band aid on it an sent me home.
Well, by July my ankle was hurting and the Doc. sent me for an Xray to check for Arthritis. After the Xray Tech. took the first photo she asked me in a funny voice if I had any recent accidents. I told her the only thing I had done recently was step on a pen that went up my foot. She said, "Well, that explains it then"! She shows me the photo and there is my foot with the little metal writing end of the pen sitting in between some bones in my foot.
I was kinda glad to see that because I was having pains in the foot and assumed it was Arthritis. That being said I was annoyed that my Doc had not dug around in the wound to make sure nothing was stuck in it.
I had surgery last week to remove it. When the Doc got into the foot, he could not get the metal pen piece but he did repair the tear in the large ligament that the little pesky pen went through! He told me that if I am ever putting my socks on and feel an area in my foot that is protruding, let him know. It will most likely be that pen piece and he can easily remove it. He said it was just way up in the foot and he was concerned about hitting nerves and ligaments.
I can't walk for 3 weeks! My art studio is upstairs too so... I just have to be patient and before I know it, I will be up and runnign again! ( No, I do not run, I walk but you know what I mean!)
Saturday, January 10, 2009
This morning I had my son sit down while he ate a hot pocket and I drew his nose.
His nose is a thing of sheer beauty, don't you think?
When you focus on parts of the face to draw and not try to think about the whole area you see much more in the subject. I saw things in this nose I have never noticed before, that sounds silly and a little gross but it is true.
Yesterday I attended my drawing class. We drew the scull again and then we drew him with skin and eyes, nose and mouth. It was a fun thing to do and I learned lots! This week we are to draw 10 noses for homework.
She asked us to draw ideally from life, then if we have to from a photo and to please not draw from someone else's sketch. One student drew a few eyes from an art book about drawing she had at home. That is to easy and you do not learn anything and technically it's steeling and copying someone else's art. Then we went into a discussion about copyright material and artist.
Here are a few sculls and scullies face!
Friday, January 9, 2009
Self Portrait of my eyes
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Drawing eyes
Our homework is to draw 10 or more sets of eyes, at least one infant, oriental, looking up, sideways, old, etc... you get the jest. Here is my 1st 2. It will be very interesting for me to look back at these 1st drawings in just a few weeks to see my improvement! I did not get the proper tilt of the 2nd set of eyes at all but I learned!!!
Portrait Drawing class
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