I promised; I deliver
Saturday, December 9th, 2006
Yesterday I came to the startling realization that the Internet’s continued frustration of my efforts to Pimp My Blog was all to tell me to get back to art, already. So I did, sort of. I had to work all day today, but after I got back and had dinner, I broke out the new sketching toys. Also might put in a little time on “Blue Lucy” (my current painting).
None of tonight’s sketches are particularly inspired; if I am ever a famous artist whose sketchpads are turned into expensive and glossy-paged books, these will be among the sketches excluded for “lack of space.” (However, if I judged all my art and sketches like that, I would be a sad and depressed person.)
I began with the water-soluble crayons, because I had a thirst for color, and drew a mostly-full plastic cup sitting on the shelf above me. It would be a better drawing if I hadn’t added that odd green chunk. Oh well. I really like the way the crayons handle–they’re much more heavily pigmented than the Crayolas of my youth, so they can be layered and built up pretty well. I can’t wait to get some heavier paper and try them out with water and brushes.
After that, I decided to loosen up a bit with a blind contour drawing in marker, which there isn’t much to say about, considering I wasn’t even looking at the paper.
So, tonight’s sketches: they are what they are, but any sketch is better than no sketch at all.
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And, as if I am being rewarded for sketching, I have finally figured out a tentative solution to all my formatting problems. I figured out thumbnails, I got them nicely integrated with the text, and if you click them, they should open up in their own browser window. Hurrah!
