art class again.
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voxwomanI've missed updating everyone on my antics over the past 2 art classes.
2 weeks ago, I decided to bring in my pastel set that I bought at a serious discount when I went in last spring to get supplies for a bookbinding class, and have been languishing in my office ever since. working in color adds a HUGE layer of complexity on top of a drawing. It's much more challenging than selecting fabric for a quilt, which is really collage - the fabrics have been printed already. But this - you are working with pure color and there are shading/layering and the shadows and highlights in an object aren't simply variations in value (addng black or white to a color); there are also differences in hue - a shadow in a yellow petal is actually purple or blue, for example.
Anyway, this is the result of my first foray into chalk pastels:
Then last Thursday, I decided that I was going to work on the Creatrix drawing I started about 6 months ago (give or take) in my Gigantic Moleskine Sketchbook, and this happened:
I expect to spend a lot more hours on this drawing. I'm also thinking it needs to be a huge wall mural, perhaps on the side of my garage or something. I'm getting excited about getting it all penciled in, and then inking it. And then coloring it. Don't worry, I will take detailed scans at the completion of each stage of development, in case I manage to screw it up somehow.
2 weeks ago, I decided to bring in my pastel set that I bought at a serious discount when I went in last spring to get supplies for a bookbinding class, and have been languishing in my office ever since. working in color adds a HUGE layer of complexity on top of a drawing. It's much more challenging than selecting fabric for a quilt, which is really collage - the fabrics have been printed already. But this - you are working with pure color and there are shading/layering and the shadows and highlights in an object aren't simply variations in value (addng black or white to a color); there are also differences in hue - a shadow in a yellow petal is actually purple or blue, for example.
Anyway, this is the result of my first foray into chalk pastels:
Then last Thursday, I decided that I was going to work on the Creatrix drawing I started about 6 months ago (give or take) in my Gigantic Moleskine Sketchbook, and this happened:
I expect to spend a lot more hours on this drawing. I'm also thinking it needs to be a huge wall mural, perhaps on the side of my garage or something. I'm getting excited about getting it all penciled in, and then inking it. And then coloring it. Don't worry, I will take detailed scans at the completion of each stage of development, in case I manage to screw it up somehow.
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Date: 2013-10-14 05:43 pm (UTC)Colour can indeed "screw things up" terribly, in my experience. You could always try scanning it into photoshop and fit some variations of colours on her there...?
(And I really didn't know that lj could do that - print right out of the "frame" :-). Maybe just my style, but I can scroll this thing way out there to the right!)
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Date: 2013-10-14 05:49 pm (UTC)