Okay, it’s not very often that I will unabashedly state that I love one of my drawings. I love this drawing! I was so skeptical when I started it that it was going to amount to anything. If you look at the last post, you can see that the prelimary background work is nebulous. There is still some detail to be added to a couple of rocks, but the combination of the paper color, background work, rock tones, and glass reflections have combined, in my opinion, to make one of my more interesting rock drawings.
I welcome any comments or critiques! I’m on to a new oil painting – a small 8″ x 10″ panel of a rock still life. I want to make it have a very “jewel-like” appearance. I want to do two more oils and then assess where I am with this series.
I’ve started a new drawing and I find it interesting to note how different my approach is to this one compared to a similar one I recently completed. Both are of stones in glass vases, but in the first one I drew the rock and glass first and the background last. With this newest drawing I executed the background first, then moved on to the glass vase, and saved the rocks and vase interior for last. This drawing also contains a water element; the rocks are resting in water in the vase. In the first drawing there isn’t any water. I’ve posted the comparable stage post below.
The new drawing is almost complete, and I’ll be posting a photograph of it soon! Listening to books on tape/CD is really helping my output, especially when the genre is mystery/thriller. I can’t stop working and can’t wait to get back to work . . . .
Here is a photograph of the latest drawing I’ve been working on – an array of stones. I really did get them to balance like that! My friend, the photographer Jan Reiss, dubbed me “Andrea Goldsworthy”. I love environmental art – organic matter arranged in nature and then photographed, or visited before it vanishes. The colors of the stones have been accentuated, but they only take on a more pronounced hue of the color they really are.
I’ve started another drawing on Canson Mi-Tientes, and am off to buy more art supplies tomorrow to start a new oil painting. I spent several days this past week attempting to stage and photograph ideas I have in my head. Does anyone else find that they get these glimpses in their imagination of what they want to create, only to find it so difficult to try and create the vision in real life? It’s almost like operating in a dream state, and it’s very frustrating. Maybe I’ll get better at it, but I did manage to accomplish some semblance of my ideas. . . .we’ll see where it takes me. Any tips or advice from anyone?