Sunday, April 1, 2012

Mixing It Up

I was over at Jennifer Edward's blog Drawn2Lifewhere she has started some mini lessons on drawing. Not the technicalities of line but on why or how to do it really. For the first lesson she asked us to draw up a chair and ... well, go to her blog and read it yourself. I can't see repeating it and you should get it straight from her rather than letting me paraphrase and mess up the message. Anyhow, the end result was a challenge to draw some chairs we use. So I drew three of the chairs I use a lot in my home. I just didn't have room for my dining table chair and now that I think of it, the stool I use when doing crosswords with my husband. I have more chairs in my home but these are the ones that don't sit and collect dust! Why don't you draw your chairs but first read what she has to say here. I used a page with a background treatment I really didn't like. I don't like to tear these out of my journal so I wait and hope something will come up to use it with. For the chairs it seemed to work okay. Drawn in pencil first, I moved on to a fine pen as I didn't think just watercolor would be enough on this background. Then I added the watercolor. I thought about doing colored pencil or gouache but I really love watercolor so used it. This was fun and just what I needed! Oh, the top of the picture got a tad cut off in the scanning. The top of the rocker is actually in my picture.

12 comments:

  1. WOW!!! I TOTALLY LOVE THIS PAGE TIMAREE!! How cool is that! I love how you combined the three chairs. And your colors are superb! Yay!

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  2. Very good perspective! My chairs always look so wonky!
    And I agree with Jennifer, to paraphrase Ferris Bueller, ‘Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it!’

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  3. What great drawing skills you have Timaree!!! I too am so impressed with the perspective and the collage that you've created is very artistic and well done. You just can't help yourself-ha-ha!! Beautiful. I'll look at Jennifer's blog.

    (Sorry I've not been in touch lately- life got busy. Back soon!)

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  4. Such a wonderful page, gorgeous chairs, and colours, and the combination is great too.

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  5. So glad you're back! These are great chair drawings!

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  6. Timaree, this is wonderful! I'm impressed by your handling of all those chair legs! ;o) Color is beautiful, too.

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  7. Thanks everyone! I hope to have some more to share with you.

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  8. You did a great job on the chairs, you enjoyed it and it shows!

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  9. I know you said you didn't like the background, but I looked at it and started wondering how I could add some to my chairs to jazz it up a bit! OF course the color is fantastic!

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  10. This page turned out great! I think the background colors really worked well with the personality of the chairs! Jennifer's post was so inspirational, wasn't it! Love what you did!

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  11. I love your chair drawing! Especially that painted chair. Sure would like to have chairs like that myself!

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  12. Really good!
    I like the way you mixed things up.

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