One last drawing (til next term)...
Here's my final project for the Drawing class. We were given free rein on this one, so I decided to incorporate our pets into the drawing. I started with Athena in colored pencil:
And then for something fun I camouflaged the 6 cats into the yard with watercolor and a Sharpie marker. This is the final drawing:
Athena's World
(aka "Where's those cats?")
(aka "Where's those cats?")
With the watercolor I first put down a wash of color, then did the linear work with the Sharpie, and then went back in some areas with more saturated hues of watercolor to create the value variations. Here's a close-up of Sassy:
And Crook in the tree:
My "experiments" with artwork don't usually end up coming out very well (not in my opinion anyway), but for a homework project I'll say I'm decently happy with this one, or at least I can say my experiment of watercolor with colored pencil didn't go horribly wrong.
One last note on this- For 20-some years I've drawn with colored pencils, but ever since I went back to school all of my art professors have told me, "Throw away your colored pencils!!! It's not REAL art!" They preferred to push the old masters' mediums of pastels and oil paint.
And then there is my current drawing instructor who for this project told me, "DO IT IN COLORED PENCIL! It would look SO COOL!!!"
Geez, make up y'alls minds.
4 comments:
It is cool! Very lighthearted, great drawing. And I know I know squat about art, but it seems to me every medium has its place. Jeez, maybe you should harvest colored plants and boil them down for pigment.
It's really cool, your professor knows real talent......that's probably what he's paid to do, and this is real nice. Thanks for sharing, love the kitties and the puppy. j.d.
Anna I know that a lot of artists mix their own oil paint "recipes" from pigments and mediums. That's a whole 'nuther realm I'll have to learn.
Thanks y'all.
Got a 98, and instructor has kidnapped it to put it in the Spring Student Exhibition.
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