My inspiration photo |
Following Alisa Burke's lead, I added a black-marker border and some journaling to capture a few notes about the subject matter.
I get the most amazing feedback on my sketchbook pages from my budding-artist daughter, Katy. When she saw my finished page, she threw her arms around my waist, sputtered a moment over what to say, and declared, "I love you, Mommy!" If that isn't incentive to keep up my sketchbook efforts, I don't know what is!
Once I finished the bird-of-paradise page, my daughters wanted to watch me do a second page, and "voted" on the lizard we saw at the Nuuanu Pali Lookout on our trip.
My second inspiration photo |
I always think I should point out, "in my defense," that most of my work is completed on the sofa with a five-year-old on my right side and a six-year-old on my left. Not a whole lot of freedom of movement for this artist's elbows, and certainly no fear of drawing with an audience allowed!
I think I better stick to leaves and flowers for awhile!
8 comments:
Loved your artwork! The flower is beautiful.
LOL - sounds like your children are very supportive of your artistic endeavors (which I think you are doing very well)...watching you may rub off on them if it hasn't already...hope you have a great Labor Day - hard to believe September is here!
I like your stylised sketches. Love the contrast between the soft colours and the strong dark lines. And the lizard has a mischievous look on its face :-)
I actually love the lizard! It has character. ;-)
your sketching efforts are impressive and I'm loving seeing what you're doing. how great that you have such a supportive audience! btw, that flower is a heliconia, not bird of paradise - but it's gorgeous none-the-less! i always forget i can sketch from photos....as i look around my family room i'm always uninspired to pick up a pencil, but from my photos....now that's another situation entirely. thanks for the inspiration!
I love your blog. So nice catching up with you today. Congrats on a lovely Hawaiian vacation.
Okay, that scene with Katy made me smile!!
I love this. We went up to the falls too, and this drawing and your colors took me back there right away. awesome!
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