Anna's method is a great way to learn. I'm learning a great deal by following along with her. As you all know, I am way to impatient to work hours on a drawing. Maybe I should, but I just can't. I have done pen and ink drawings with a pencil sketch to start and I enjoy it, maybe I'll do one when we get home to Bastrop. Not now of course. Ha. I even drew individual Christmas Cards the first year we were in Bolivia. I did about 60 cards with a pencil drawing of a llama by a church and finished it with ink. The next year I drew a card and had them printed. It was with the old lead, wood cut style so the ink stood up in relief. Pretty nifty. Would have cost a fortune in the old U.S. of A.
Jeanne Grant, one of the Scavenger Hunt artists, asked Katherine Tyrrell at Making a Mark how she develops her sketches into paintings or finished drawings. You can take a look at Katherine's post today. As I have said many times, Katherine is my working art encyclopedia. I am always astounded at how much research she does on a regular basis. It is more amazing as she has time to sketch, draw and paint as well.
For my part, here are a few sketches that I did on our trip to Truth or Consequences at the B & B, the Black Range Lodge in Kingston, New Mexico. I thought my children might enjoy the first one I did.
It is Gene sitting by the front of the lodge working on his journal. No cell phone service there, but they had wireless internet. :) This and the next also fit in with my tree sketching, right?
There is one of the entrance wagon wheel and trees.
A sketch of our dresser and window in our room.
Another room with an arch. This window looked into the banana greenhouse room.
For the Scavenger Hunt #54 that I am hosting, here is number 9, a rug. this is one of the rugs in the living room here in the rent house. I have a plastic cloth over the end table and a cover over the rest of the rug with my easel set up for pastel. It is in the generic sketchbook about 6 x 9 inches with a Micron 005 pen, about 35 minutes. There are only two more days, it's not looking good for me to get many more done. :(
7 comments:
Jo, you keep going on about these hunts and you are going to convince me to try one! :-) Nice sketches...especially the rug.
Rose, They are interesting and keep me sketching. Sketching is such a good exercise and I do not do it on a regular basis if I don't do the Hunts. I feel guilty if I don't take part .... so I keep at it. I do think it is good for me. At least I hope so. It does take time.
Jo
That first sketch did make me smile. :)
Joanna, I thought you would smile. Our room was above with the deck over the sign.
Mch
I've been to Truth and Consequences!!! Last year - we had lunch at La Cocina, one of the restaurants there, on our way to Albuquerque
You can see my drawings of a ristra and the heads of a dead deer and a dead elk in Chilis and a big elephant butt
Thanks for the link, the mention AND the compliment. I'm going to have these all down some day! :D
You're absolutely right about the benefit of regular sketching. Everytime I see anybody start to sketch on a regular basis and stick with it, I've seen huge improvements in their work.
Katherine, I remember your visit to NM as we were here as well, but in Silver City. We went to T or C on Sept. 22 and I sketched on the other side of the lake with the local group. (Sketch posted 9/23/06) Beautiful early in the a.m. Also one of the cooks from La Cocina is now in our Texas home of Bastrop and has a restaurant called Grace's. Small world!
Jo
Katherine, I forgot to thank you for commenting and stopping by.
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