Every Day in May
I participated in the Everyday in May Challenge for several years by uploading my daily journal sketch to my blog everyday. It was a good way for me to combat my inner critic a little - because the quality and my happiness with the sketches varied greatly. This year I decided not to post daily, but to post more frequently than my usual schedule of twice per week.
Monday we took our 4 year old grandson to the Empire State Building. His two siblings have been there and he wanted to go. This page has a prepainted background and then a collage cut from one of the brochures they passed out there.
Tuesday I made my weekly drive to NJ to visit my 93 year old mother. She fell in Nov. fracturing both her right hip and shoulder. It was a beautiful day and we sat outside in the sun next to a gorgeous pink dogwood tree. The background was prepainted, and the dogwood blossom and lady are collages. The woman (Lady in the Park by August Macke) is one of the drawings I did at the German Expressionist exhibit during my 2nd visit.
Prepainted backgrounds and collage are part of Roz Stendahl's Strathmore Journal class this month.
Wednesday I took my husband and met friends back at the German Expressionist exhibit at MoMA. I really love it and enjoy drawing my way from the beginning to the end. These are two journal pages of drawings done yesterday.
Comments
Shirley, as usual I am SO enjoying your work! Do you think that copying the works of others helps you to remember the pieces easier? I know it does for me even if my work doesn't come close to the original. And I love having a little remembrance of the pieces that I might not otherwise have since photos are not always allowed.
Could you share a bit more about how you collaged the dog wood? Is it a separate sketch that you attached with gel medium?
Posted by: Trish | May 12, 2011 5:45 PM
Such a fun looking compilation =) I love the colors and the lines are just fun!
Posted by: Alex Tan | May 15, 2011 1:12 PM