Friday, May 13, 2016

:: day iii ::

where I am learning about proportion and tone...and that hand-eye-brain co-ordination is, well, challenging!
can see lots of room for improvements, but when I haven't done this for a long time, I feel it is better to STOP earlier, rather than later.  I don't want to kill my enthusiasm or get totally hung up in a kind of perfection I'm not aiming at, actually.
I did actually take three photos and after the first and second I dashed back to the drawing and thought I was correcting the tonal value each time, which I was, but not nearly enough to be accurate.
I did learn that viewing the drawing through the camera helped me to see the tone much better. Like that little trick of squinting and looking at the subject through the eyelashes - it somehow cuts out colour and allows the brain/eye to perceive black and white/grey tones - very useful. Although, I have to say I forgot about that completely until I was looking through the camera.
Good fun!

:: day 2 ::

where I draw an eye...got to get the brain-hand-eye thing going...maybe I could draw a hand and then a brain...might help? ;-) 
...learned things about testing out tools before using them on the drawing - had a good ooops with a too-dirty and too-old-and-crusty eraser...ah, well...all learnings...

Thursday, May 5, 2016

:: day one, getting started again... ::

journalling is helpful for me
 I don't usually have a problem getting started on new projects...I have lots of things unfinished - UFOs, yes indeed.
form drawing
 But...getting me into art again has been a very slow, painful, protracted process. I had made up so many reasons/excuses/beliefs about why I wouldn't start, yes indeed.
more form drawing
I've been reading lots about creativity and motivation, talking lots about how to get started, visiting shows and openings, talking to artists -heck I've even attracted artists for close friends and neighbours (!!) and everything I read or hear seems to say the same stuff to me - only I can do this, only I can choose it, only I can want it enough to make it happen. And if I practise it daily, or as near to as I can, then magic will happen...
Here's to magic and making a daily practise of creating seriously happen...