Shhhhh! Don’t tell anyone – it’s my new piece.
I’ve started a new colored pencil piece, and I had hoped to have more work done before an initial post, but I’m off on a spur-of-the-moment vacation tomorrow, and didn’t want to go another week or so without any news. This piece is coming from source photographs I took for potential pieces on Wellesley. As you may recall, my last piece was a Wellesley-themed drawing for the Wellesley Society of Artists 75th Anniversary show this spring. This was a close contender for that show, and I decided I liked the humor and whimsy of it enough to do the piece. It’s a view of the fish tank outside the Children’s section of the Wellesley Public Library, and they have this funny sticker on the glass with a request, and all of the fish are glub glubbing looking at you. .. are you being quiet enough? I wished I could have held the “punch line” back until the end, but I was anxious to make sure that the lettering worked and was in place and not going to fade away, so I put it in at the beginning. Oh well, the cat’s out of the bag!
This one makes me smile already! Thank you for posting – looking forward to seeing more.
Comment by Holly Bedrosian — Friday, March 13, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
Debbi, do you ever stay home anymore?? Now we will all have to wait to see what happens with this piece, while you are flitting around Amsterdam. (I’m insanely jealous really.) Have a wonderful time; looking forward to the photos I know are coming!
Comment by Lynda — Friday, March 13, 2009 @ 5:26 pm
Hi Holly and Lynda, you guys are truly devoted fans and I thank you for that! I am excited to see this one finished as well, and I really want to make it go faster this time. I’m trying using out medium pressure on colors (as opposed to always light pressure) to see if that can help!
Comment by Debbi — Friday, March 13, 2009 @ 6:39 pm