We don't play cards - and the only deck that I could find in the apartment came from a Benefit Dinner for a Health Care non-profit organization that we attended. Loved the joker - so that was good for sketching. The individual cards each had a single Medicare fact printed on the face side. Wish I had something more exciting!
I got behind last week when I was working on my blog entry re: recylcled books. Here finally are the last two challenges: Body lotions that smell good and my Breakfast.
I still try to practice faces and figures as much as possible since this is one of my goals for 2008. Here are a few that I haven't posted previously.
This was a traditional photo that I tried to stylize in the sketch.
A watercolor sketch from another magazine advertisement. I tried to minimize the amount of ink in the drawing and to work on mixing watercolor skin tones.
When I was shopping for more watercolor pencils at Pearl Paint, I found the eye, nose, and mouth sketch on the left on the "test pad" hanging on the cabinet containing the pencils. I had to rip it off to test my pencils and since there was no longer anyone around, I brought it home for my own practice. I'm in awe of someone who could quickly dash these off - and tried to do the same.
This was a bad experiment! I wanted to try the Mars Lumograph black pencil and my Cretacolor white pencil on a scrap of brown sketching paper. The brown color is just too dark to really see the sketch, so I'll go back and buy a lighter tan for more experimentation.
This is the wonderful used book store where I find my perfect-sized $1.00 books for recycling. It is a lovely bookstore - well organized and cozy. There is a cafe and tables for browsing and reading - and 3 carts always loaded with their oldest and most unloved books for $1.00. All proceeds go for AIDS research and support. My favorite that I purchased this week was Parnassus on Wheels - a short novel by Christopher Morley - complete with lovely ink illustrations. Of course I had to read the entire book as soon as I got home.
Gill at Journal Craft Inspiration has several "Floor Plan" drawings on her blog for inspiration and I thought I would give it a try. My first home, from birth through 3rd grade, was a second floor apartment in this house in Clifton, New Jersey. I had no problem remembering the floor plan and had fun making the memory page. I am an only child and had my bed on the living room couch. When I was sick, my blanket and pillow remained there during the day giving rise to the concept of a "sick bed" which I always created for my children on the family room couch when they were home from school. Now my daughter and oldest son do it for their children.