Contour Drawings, pt 1

I did a few quick contour drawings today.   Contour drawings are not supposed to be done quickly.  Slowing down is a new thing for me, so I will continue to do contour drawings and slow them down,  bit by bit.

We had a bunch of bananas hanging on a banana hanger-thingy, so I used those as my object.  I used MAM’s trick of punching a hole in a piece of paper, sticking my pen in the hole so the paper covered my hand while I drew the blind contour studies.

I did two modified contour studies, looking at my paper only to make the lines meet.

This is the result of a short amount of time and a quick study in the contours of a bunch of bananas.

 

Blind Contour drawing of bananas

Modified Contour drawing of bananas

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Palettes, pt 1

Today I was able to sit down and start working on my adventure in Sketchbookery.  I cleared a space on our little tile-topped table next to the large window that looks out onto the back yard.  Since doing a total makeover of the backyard, I enjoy sitting at the table in the mornings and watching the life that has come into our space!

I have two palettes:  one has 8 basic colors and was on clearance at Hobby Lobby for less than $3 and the other is a Hobby Lobby brand “Master’s Touch” basic set with 22 colors.

I made a palette card for each set and then decided to use the smaller set for my mixing and exploration of colors.

Here are my results:

 

I only had $100 I could spend on supplies, so this is what I managed to get.

Palette for the 8 color pan set of Yarka watercolors

Watercolor palette for the 22 color Master’s Touch set from Hobby Lobby

Experimenting with mixing 3 colors

Experimenting with mixing 3 colors

Experimenting with mixing 3 colors

Experimenting with mixing 3 colors

Various blue tones & hues

Various yellow tones and hues

Not thinking – doing

Extremely wet watercolor hue exploration

Extremely wet watercolor hue exploration

Extremely wet watercolor hue exploration

Watercolor exploration beginnings

Cliff Jumping and Wing Development

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Kurt Vonnegut

July 1 is one of those “jumping off of cliff” days – let’s see how the wings develop!