Resource 4: DFAYW #4 FORM

 My hand - using pastels

and my(slightly lop-sided) vase..

I surprised myself by enjoying this!
(I didn't think it would turn out ok)


I got kind of enthusiastic and decided
I wanted to draw a bunch of bananas
so took some photos, uploaded them
and printed them out...

...in colour...

 and in grey scale...
Unfortunately, they didn't turn out they way I'd hoped.
So frustrating and disappointing...
I will try again another day.

Time: 2 hours (28 Feb)

TOTAL: 51.5 hours for FEB 2013

Getting sorted so I'm organised!

For a long time I have felt in a muddle

and I recognise I function way better 

in an organised environment...

So this is what I've been doing today
Getting Organised!

 This was my children's first school desk.
They are all too big for it now *sniff*
It is on the left on the dining table where
I (usually) sit to do my art work

This was my eldest daughter's desk.
It became Cameron's, when she finished
home-schooling and now that Cam is at
school..it's become MY desk.
My "other" desk...a girl can not have too
many surfaces to do art  LOL!

It's opposite the little desk, on the
right-hand side of the dining room table
so very accessible and handy..

 ..and the table, well...half of it
I've put all my drawings and inspirational
ideas/photos etc into my journal and the
scrapbook on the table is my "new" one...

Resource 4: Drawing For All 
Your Worth #4 (FORM)

 I photographed a vase to draw

..changed it to B/W
I'm now doing some drawing
of it and of my hand.
Be back with some pics later...

Time: 4 hours (Thurs 21 Feb)

Resource 4: Tone and Atmosphere

Drawing for all Your Worth #3

Exercise 6

Adding paint to one of my ink backgrounds

I was inspired by my purple apple and
thought half of it would work really well.
..I'm really happy how this turned out!

This pamphlet was the inspiration 

for one of the other ink background

I used pastels for this and love 

both the paint and pastel picture.

Must do this kind of thing again...
it was really enjoyable!

Time: 2 hours (Mon 18 Feb)

Resource 4: Drawing for All Your Worth #3

I've had a good a productive weekend.

I worked some more on my Koru on Saturday

and Sunday spent the afternoon working

on Resource 4 exercises.

Before adding the pastels..

..and after.

I plan on adding text but I'm not sure what 

or how. I have to admit to being afraid

of "messing it up" so I will put it to one

side until I know for sure.

I had to watch the DVD again today to 

comprehend the exercises in the resource

 and found it to be really visually helpful...

 Playing with ink and wet paper...

 Swirling the ink...

Blobs and strokes

For the first drawing exercise I
decided to try sketching my foot

I used this photo...

cropped, enlarged it and
turned it grey scale

my sketch - using tone and
shading to define shape

Playing it "safe"...but I'm happy with it

 Wooden fruit - more tone/shading

Inspired by these photos...

a kauri pear half

..and an apple

I found it really enjoyable and

satisfying drawing these..

Still playing it safe though!

edited on my computer
to intensify colour/tone

"Pushing the boat out" with a 

quickly-sketched pastel drawing

(and trying to loosen up!)

It looks a bit weird now that 

I've photographed it ..it looks
a bit like a mustard pot...lol!

So then I changed the colour
of the apple...

..and "pixilated" it.
This was my inspiration for the grid
exercise recognising tonal structure

Doesn't really look like an apple
any more does it? LOL!

Saturday-2 hours

Sunday-6 hours

Total: 8 hours (16/17 Feb)