the drawing on the left was started around 4pm, and within the 10 mins that i was sketching it, the sun set and the shadow changed on me.
the other is the view from the office window in the school on the second floor.
i think i might need to do a larger drawing to get motivated to do some sketches again...or i just need some sleep. I have been burning the candle at both ends lately.
Top picture: Great perspective with the high vanishing point. I like the idea of a "view from your office." I think I'll suggest it as our next Challenge.
ReplyDeleteBottom picture: The trio!--egg, can, and bag. Now I'll have to go back too and try this triple play. As always, I Like your shading. Nice simplification on the can. The bag is very believably rough paper.
Ah--the moving sunlight. Some part of nature is forever moving on us. Not just the squirrel, the whole tree, albeit in very, very slow motion. Look at one of your drawings several years from now, and the landscape will be changed. You are not just drawing a scene, you are drawing history.
I once tried a watercolor painting of an iris bud in a vase. It was night, I set up my still life on the kitchen table, turned on the chandelier spotlight for nice contrast, but was having trouble with getting the shapes right. Then it dawned on me that the iris was moving. It was slowly turning to the light. No, It was very slowly opening and unfolding its petals before my eyes!
One up and coming Challenge will be to draw "Moving Nature"--one of the more slow-motion movements--Clouds. Way more challenging than you might expect. I'll wait for warmer weather and better cloud patterns for that one.
Pleased to see that with a "low battery" you are still keeping at it, and with such panache. I think those disciplined efforts, when no muse is present, take us to another level of art. A higher one. A less fickle one.
i say, both are great. trees are a bugger, aren't they? i see you've discovered that you can't draw every brick - excellent.
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