The image that I kept returning to for the EDM Challenge "Draw Something Dangerous," was my precious little 3 year old grand daughter Sydney who can now ride her two wheel bike without training wheels! She rides it on a quiet street in front of their summer house with adults all around her, but she is soooo tiny on it!
My sketch doesn't show the joy on her little face, so here is one of many pictures taken while she whizzed by.
This is the next entry for my "Our Homes" series of sketches. I really wish that I had taken more photos of our houses, but this is something that I never considered while we were living there.
After several years in Chicago we moved to La Jolla, California to finish our training. I was pregnant with our first child and lived in a little cottage overlooking the ocean during the next 4 years. The house was small, but we had a fabulous brick patio built into the mountain behind us. The weather was so nice most of the year that it became the family playroom for our sons. All 3 of our children were born there (my daughter 14 days before moving day) and then we moved to yet another part of the country - Texas.
We just returned from several days with friends in their family summer home overlooking Silver Lake in NH. Anyone that knows my blog realizes that I paint very few landscapes, so I forced myself to upload a sketch that I did from their porch overlooking the lake. This year I'm trying to work on figures and faces, maybe next year I can work on trees in Central Park, NYC.
We saw this truck parked along 79th Street in New York City when walking to nursery school last Spring. My grandson, who loves Superheroes, was fascinated by the truck mascot that was wired onto the front grill - spiderman dressed as a Mets Fan! Fortunately I had my camera with me so took a picture of him.
I'm still drawing figures (mostly dancers) from photos to practice sketching their body positions. I take ballet barre once each week when I can (I hate all other forms of exercise) and then pick up a postcard advertising a dance program and sketch the photo while I have a cold drink. We pick up my grandson Robbie at nursery school at lunchtime, so I have some time to paint these while I'm still at the dance studio. I'd love to work live, but ballet dancers are in constant motion. I've made no progress on adding faces so far this year and their hands are still pretty awful, but I know that constant practice is important. Here are some of the ones that I sketched in July.
I also copied several more Seurat drawings onto the modern equivalent of the paper he used and here is the last one I did. I usually don't draw only in pencil, so using his drawings as inspiration and experimenting with the Arches MBM 105 grain paper and some of my pencils is fun.
