Recent EDM Challenges
I was very lazy about doing EDM Challenges last month and even worse about uploading them to my blog. I finally decided to post them all at once - and catch up. One of my annual art goals is to complete each weekly sketch because it:
1. Gives me a subject for one of my daily sketches each week.
2. Stretches my drawing and painting skills.
EDM Challenges #238 - Draw Your First Aid Kit - and #239 - Draw What Has Scared You
My husband and I are both physicians so we have First Aid items in random places in our apartment. When thinking about this challenge, I immediately remembered my Aircasts - one for my right ankle and one for my left ankle. I had two very serious ankle sprains due to mis-steps and the use of an aircast allowed me to walk within 24-48 hours and continue to heal during 3-4 months each time. I live in a City where walking is really essential - my car is parked 3 blocks away from our apartment and the nearest bus and subway stop are both one long block away each. I was really scared after my first serious ankle injury after moving back to Manhattan, because I realized how easily I could be apartment-bound.
EDM Challenge #240: My Favorite Pencils
EDM Challenge #241: Draw the View from Your Kitchen Window
This is my usual view - a beautiful stained glass window approximately 15 feet away, with lovely concerts that I can enjoy when both of our windows are open.
This is my current view. There is work being done on our apartment building and there is a scaffold below the church window and a board protecting it. I miss it!
EDM Challenge #242: Draw a Favorite Tchatzkah
I could find nothing around our apartment except my figure drawing mannequin. I collect books and fabric and try to keep tchatzkahs to a minimum.
EDM Challenge #243: Draw a Pillow
I love fabric and frequently bring back an interesting piece when we travel. This is a pillow that I made with a piece of Fortuny fabric that I bought in Venice. The fabric has an overall design of lions - only one of which I sketched.
Comments
Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed all of them especially the polish on your toenails!
Posted by: Possum Patty | October 3, 2009 7:36 PM
Great job on all these sketches! Those air casts look serious! scary indeed not to be able to walk.
beautiful church window -- hope it's repaired soon and you have your view back.
your fabric sketch is beautifully handled -- love the impressionistic quality of the pillow!
Posted by: Judy | October 4, 2009 2:54 PM
Beautiful drawings Shirley! I have really bad ankles myself. I used to sprain them a lot, because I played a lot of soccer and basketball, and now I even sprain them when I am just walking, and they'd be swollen for 2 weeks! .
Anyway, thanks for sharing these lovely drawings ^^ Your consistency in doing the EDM challenges is impressive!
Posted by: Alex Tan | October 4, 2009 3:45 PM
All these sketches are great and glad you did a catch-up post! Your style is so recognizable to me, and I envy that! Never heard of air casts...hmmm. The older I get, I walk a little more carefully, too.
Posted by: Melissa S. | October 4, 2009 8:31 PM
Wonderful sketches and like your light use of watercolors... love those feet!
Posted by: Deb | October 5, 2009 9:33 AM
You have been very busy. I enjoyed all of the sketches very much. Although I liked them all, the aircasts is my favorite.
Posted by: donna noble | October 5, 2009 12:41 PM
Good Catch up Shirley - all lovely posts in their own right. I have had to do some catch up myself. Broken ankles in NYC would not be fun!!
Posted by: sandy | October 6, 2009 12:01 PM
Lovely drawings Shirley!! Very cute ones.. I love your pencils.. I noticed you like to put in a lot of pink shades into your paintings... Or did I just feel that way!!? But they give a lovely warmth to your paintings..
Posted by: Shalini | October 7, 2009 1:59 PM
Wonderful sketches and what a fabulous kitchen window view! Mine looks out on a lemon tree and a rose bush. The rose bush needs to be removed. It's scraggly and ugly. One of these days.... Love the footsies in the air casts!
Posted by: Jana Bouc | October 11, 2009 10:31 PM