Sabine, with guest artist

Guest artist Cerulean Blue re-joins us today, and provides a teddy bear as our subject, Sabine.

Here’s my portrait first. I like the way I captured her upper face particularly, and the splashes of color that her patched paws provide.

And here’s Simone’s version, which has some great work in the shadows, and makes her eyes and red snout come alive wonderfully!

EDM 314: Something with a knob

Another “Everyday matters” still life drawing today. The prompt was something with a knob, so I picked a set of speakers, which have since stopped working well.

I like the shadows here, and also the way I captured the shape of the one speaker “in profile”, as it were.

EDM 315: Something blue

This is another still life from the “Everyday Matters” series of prompts: something blue. I like the way the color turned out here, and the bits of shading and perspective. It definitely did help me look at an everyday object in a fresh light.

Unlocking Home – An abstract square

The last exercise in my “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” workbook was to enlarge a small window on an everyday object into a four inch square. This was supposed to introduce us to abstract art by “abstracting” the qualities of a natural or man-made subject and help us get in touch with gestalt perception.

Take a good look at this drawing before I tell you more about my subject. 🙂

Loving Lambeth (Featuring a guest artist!)

Hey! I’ve got a special treat for you today. My guest artist is Cerulean Blue, somebody who I’ve shared many drawing adventures with, going back to the exercises from the Betty Edwards book. We both wanted to draw her little toy lamb, much beloved and very loving.

First, here’s my version. I like what I did with shadow and the pointillism technique for Lambeth’s wool.

A figure in brown crayon

One more Betty Edwards exercise tonight. This one was copying somebody else’s picture again, an Alphonse Legros. The assignment was to work with cross-hatching with a reddish-brown crayon.

It was a little tricky figuring out how to do shading with the crayon, as it was so dark and even trying to draw a thin line with it wasn’t always easy. But I like the effect of the overall proportions and the one spot where I kinduv smudged the crayon.

A toned self-portrait

Another Betty Edwards self-portrait exercise tonight; this one’s actually a self-portrait of me, using a graphite toned background.

Charcoal after Picasso

This was one of the Betty Edwards exercises that I rather liked; copying a Picasso self-portrait in charcoal. It’s the 1899-1900 Barcelona self-portrait, if you’d like to look it up for a comparison.

The Fallsview Skyline, Niagara

Hello, friends and followers! Another attempt at a travel lanscape today, from a trip to Niagara Falls a few years back. I don’t seem to have a reference photograph, but I know that I know that I was drawing from fairly close to the falls, looking up towards the Niagara Fallsview Casino and the Skylon tower.