It is a day for the blues. It is dark and cloudy with lots of thunder and only a 15% chance of rain. It looks like we will have rain any minute but has been that way all morning. Perfect day to sketch blue for the blues and show my little bluebonnets.
First the sketch for today's Scavenger Hunt.
For Scavenger Hunt 673 https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/topic/scavenger-hunt-673-mar-31-apr-8/page/2/
Number 2, red - the huge Honey Crisp apple and Number 3, blue - cup. The cup is big, a 12-14 ounce mug. I did not quite get the apple big enough, it was just sitting on the cups edge. Anyway, you get the idea. I sketched with a Micron 02 and added colored pencil.
I do not have any dark navy or indigo colored pencil. The next time I try for dark blue I will try putting a light layer of black underneath. That works in pastels. Coloring with the pencils took over an hour. I could have finished in 15 or 20 minutes with pastels. Of course the big book white paper will not work for watercolor or pastels. Even watercolor would have been faster.
My little blues, or bluebonnets by the mailbox. I thought we would have more this year because we left the plot to seed last year. Not to be.
There are only 12 blooming including the one in the lower right of the second photo that only has the white top so far. There don't seem to be as many wildflowers period, but maybe that is just me. Too dry? Too cold? Too hot??
My little flags warning the mowers not to cut them are bigger than the flowers.
If you are in Bastrop, remember Art After Dark this evening at the Art Center. Ah, that is when the rain will come, right??
Art After Dark
Lost Pines Art Center, Saturday, April 3, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., BYOB
1204 Chestnut Street
Bastrop, TX 78602
It should be fun with banjo music by Helen Lee Hoffman.
4 comments:
Great job on the apple in the mug. I like that you can see the glaze of blue on the mug. Pretty bluebonnets. Too bad you don't have more...that would be nice. Glad you are protecting them.
Joan, thanks for stopping by. The bluebonnets are so pretty, we need to drive to the other side of Austin and see how they are. There used to be acres of them in pastures. Colored pencil makes me nuts!
I have several paintings that my mom did back in the 60's. One of them is of apples in a little bowl. It always bothered me that the apples look like they were packed down into the bowl. Yours does not look like that. On our way out to Lubbock last week, we saw lots of bluebonnets. Toby asked me if I were an expert on bluebonnets. I said yes and then sang "Everythings better with Bluebonnet on it."
Ha, Bag Blog! That is my kind of Bluebonnet as well. Mmmm, mmm, good. I love painting apples and this one was so big, it could have sat up a little higher. Nice you have paintings that your mom did. :-)
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