Been getting in some grunt sketching practice. I forget how important that is until I do some and realize just how much better I get when I’m really focusing on what I see vs. what I think I see.
Tag: art
The Fox
the blue period
Apparently most artists go through a blue period. It’s because blue is such a wonderful color. So much depth and feeling and warmth and comfort and richness and….you get the idea.
Also, that black-like color? I mixed that. On purpose. Progress!
Zebra
Watercolors still mystify me. Every time I think I’m starting to get the hang of it, I realize that color mixing is still so, so far outside my comfort zone. I mean, mixing red, blue and yellow to get brown, on purpose. I haven’t done that outside my color wheel project yet. I need to carry my color wheels around with me everywhere to help me figure out what I’m doing.
The zebra is a project I did during the Super Bowl, the swatches on the right are something my mother in law was working on, which I just enjoy staring at.
I am enjoying this learning, though.
Orchids
I bought an orchid at the grocery store awhile back. I’m fairly certain it was last winter, actually. I enjoyed its flowers, and have dumped a splash of water on it roughly once a week ever since. It put out 4 more leaves, and then a few weeks ago started sprouting buds. It’s been so much fun to watch them swell, and this past week they have been bursting open one by one.
I had actually forgotten what color the flowers were.
