Tonight I made two Artist Trading Cards. The top one (perhaps a work in progress) is Love and the bottom is Longing. I can’t find my watercolours (where are you??) so I used my Prismacolours for the first time since getting them for school in September. I’m not a fan of coloured pencils, but these ones blend nicely. And there are two metallic ones. That’s pretty neat.
3 Comments
July 8, 2009 at 3:17 pm
i love looking at your blog. i never know what to say though. everything you make is so creative & beautiful. i am very jealous because i know i have it in me, but i have a hard time organizing my thoughts & ideas into art.
you are very talented! :)
July 10, 2009 at 7:10 pm
wow thank you for the super nice comment!
when i am in a funk or when i’m feeling creative, but i don’t think i can get the idea down exactly, i find that it helps to draw/paint with my eyes closed, or drawing upside down.
all winter, i drew upside down contour (not lifting the pen off of the page) portraits. they’re pretty neat because your brain is working from a whole new direction and the results are often very cool. i like upside down contour drawing because you’re not 100% focused on getting every detail the way you think you want it. instead, you’re left with this amazing image when you turn your page around. it’s really quite satisfying.
i uploaded some drawings from my journal for you : )
thanks again for the nice compliments. you made my day : )
July 10, 2009 at 7:12 pm
lol the photos didn’t work, so here are links:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2422/3707730679_a5cffd74e6.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2513/3707729995_5aaa2cb8e5.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2481/3708541118_b72de3cd74.jpg
i’m actually going to post them on lj now : )