Posts I’ve learned from this week:
- This week’s brilliant idea: Linda at Quotidian Curiosities has started using a “junk sketch book”, an old book that she rescued from the reject bin, for her Blind Contour Friday drawings. What a great idea! (I tried to leave a comment on her blog to say so, but Blogger apparently wasn’t playing nicely with WordPress yesterday and kept rejecting it.) One of my biggest problems with sketching is that I still feel that every sketch should be a drawing. I haven’t been able to convince myself that it’s ok to “waste” those blank pages on scribbles, experiments, failures, and messes. So yesterday when I went to work, my first stop was at the library discard bin, where I picked up a new “junk book”! I’ll be breaking it in later today after my last dragon boating session of the season.
Larry Seiler posted a wonderful gouache painting on black paper with some very helpful WIPs, plus a couple of others here and here. They reminded me one of James Gurney’s posts from last year, Drawing Shadows, Drawing Light which I had bookmarked because I found the idea of drawing light so intriguing. A couple of years ago I drew this leaf from one of my houseplants in white pencil on black paper, and found it a fascinating exercise. I need to try it again; next time I’m at the art supply store, I’m going to pick up some coloured papers so I can experiment.
