Your tool arsenals are looking mighty fine! There are some truly awesome tools being made! I hope you're all feeling challenged, out of your comfort zones, and maybe just a little frustrated. It takes some time to get your brain 'thinking backwards', and of course, exercise hurts a little. If you're frustrated, keep pushing yourself! It will be worth it, you'll see. The first day of the challenge, I shared that I did not want to paint apples when I was first learning to paint. I thought they were too boring. Good thing that for today's challenge, you can be as boring or as exciting as you'd like to be! Your challenge for Day 9: Choose any fruit. Using your homemade tools, business card, sifter, and /or fingers, create a sketch of a piece of fruit. No paintbrushes.... no paintbrushes....no
Wonky Wobbly Street 4x6
It helps to have the real thing to look at, and it's a great challenge to translate a 3-D object onto a 2-D surface. If you don't have a piece of fruit, you can resort to using a photo. (but you won't learn as much and that's taking the 'safe route') You probably should get yourself some fruit, because Hey! t's part of a healthy diet.
Tropicana Punch
Here are two sketches: one fruit, and a wonky wobbly city street, along with my alcohol ink entry for Day 9 of my other painting challenge. I made the pear awhile ago, but I did use only the business card to make it. No sifter!
What did you come up with? The Challenge for Day 8 is to continue looking for ways to make tools, and do a glass powder sgraffito sketch of your choosing. You can take as much time as you like today, and you may use any handmade or found object as tool, in addition to your business card, sifter, and fingers. NO PAINTBRUSHES!!! Nope. no.... just don't do it...
This is one of my favorite tools, made from a paint stir stick, red duct tape, and plastic doll eyelashes. No dolls were harmed in the making of this tool... or were they???? ha ha Many of you have asked about reference photos to use for these drawing days. Here is a fabulous website you'll want to check out: www.paintmyphoto.ning
This is a website for artists who are looking for reference photos that are free to use without copyright infringement. Kind photographers post their photos there for the sole purpose of allowing other artists to use them as reference photos to create artwork! Sharing is nice! Here is my glass sketch, as well as my alcohol ink painting for Day 8 of Leslie Saeta's 30 in 30 Painting Challenge. Whew!
Here are two sketches: one fruit, and a wonky wobbly city street, along with my alcohol ink entry for Day 9 of my other painting challenge. I made the pear awhile ago, but I did use only the business card to make it. No sifter!
