Highlights on Black - The Hand Redux

So today for drawing time, I tackled the undesirable task of redoing the hand. Considering that I didn't like the way the initial attempt looked like, I had no other choice. Luckily, charcoal pencils cover what is left over from erasing the first rendition, but that is where the luck ends. Charcoal also dulls the brightness of white, as you can see from this horrid camera snapshot (I need a better camera) detail of the redone hand. Earlier posts show the rendition of the hand as it was originally done and my obvious disgust with the result.

Also, I managed to advance the portrait of the old man, some with the exception of the left ear. I tried using some white chalk in order to achieve a brighter white on top of the hat, but that only made more of a mess, so it's back to the white pencil. I would need to sharpen my white pencil more in order to make more defined details on the face, but for now, this is a good rendering. I am sorry for the photo quality, like I said before, the camera is in dire need of replacing.

As always, here also is a full shot of the artwork. Perhaps for next time I will concentrate on the right side more.

Something Different...

So for drawing time today, I decided to warm up my fingers with a little origami... the last time I made a model this complex, and kudos to Peter Engle (love your book) was years ago... so I decided (what was I thinking) that the easiest by far was the origami model of the alligator:



It is far from elegant... the drawings in the book make it look a little more clean cut than my sad rendition, but my fingers are agile and I found other uses for my scoring bone!

I'm going for a walk!

While on Vacation...

I spent the Christmas Holidays in France and for my birthday, my husband took me to Montmartre in Paris where they had a permanent exhibition of Salvador Dali's Sculptures...

OH JOY!

He knows I love Dali...

Out of inspiration, these little buggers came about:

Now, I am not quite done with them yet! I have to come up with a suitable color palette for these... Yes, that bat will only have one wing...

:D

Sporadic is me... Highlights on Black - Process 7

The Blog has a new header! Yay, Header! In posting on my blog... I know, I know... nearly 2 years... Jeez! why have a blog, then? :P

One of my New Year resolutions was to draw/paint more. In order to accomplish this, I enlisted the help of my computer calendar with reminders and alarms! So now I have a scheduled drawing/painting/creative time 3 times a week for 1 hour.

Since I started with that schedule, I have been able to advance my previous project... the project that keeps on giving me dirty looks as my husband says:

"When are you going to finish this?"

O.o

So here is a semi-completed top left quadrant. Last we saw this, the quadrant was not nearly as completed... I still have to do something about that hand... it disturbs me...