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Filling in the 'blank' paper/canvass, I mean.
After a blank spell myself I've made sure I do 'something' every day, even if it's a quick sketch. Sometimes it's very quick indeed. I was thinking of doing a cartoon about 'eyebrows', I did a sketch in my scribble sketchbook...kind of shorthand notes...they take seconds to do. Here's the one for the 'eyebrow' idea...
This sat around for days while I summoned the motivation to actually do it. Here's the pic I finally posted...these things (as you can't imagine) don't take long, so I've no real excuse.
Then I was underwhelmed by it, because I prefered the face of the woman done in the rapid scribble sketch. This often happens.
I've been doing stuff, mostly pencil sketches. That's alright, but I'm struggling to get underway with a full fledged painting. The blank page keeps staring back at me, blankly.
I like some surreal art, so something along those lines might get things going. To this end I did a quickish pen and wash of one idea, but it's too derivative. An eye bursting through something is very common in surreal art, so that's gone on the backburner. Here's the small pen and wash idea...
Then I thought I'd do something about the Hunchback of Notre Dame, I considered layouts etc, and went off the boil again. (There must be something wrong with my kettle.) After staring at a blank page in my sketchbook I thought I'd just draw the three main characters from the Hunchback story. This is nothing like the picture I had in mind. But it's something...here it is at the moment...
Almost done Quasimodo, penciled in Esmeralda, and there'll be another panel for the Archbishop...so, three small panels rather than one whole painting. This is in water-soluble coloured pencils.
None of this is desperate, I'm doing something. It would be nice to turn out a fully fledged painting. Sometimes, talking about it on the forum helps get my ducks in a row.
This sat around for days while I summoned the motivation to actually do it. Here's the pic I finally posted...these things (as you can't imagine) don't take long, so I've no real excuse.
Then I was underwhelmed by it, because I prefered the face of the woman done in the rapid scribble sketch. This often happens.
I've been doing stuff, mostly pencil sketches. That's alright, but I'm struggling to get underway with a full fledged painting. The blank page keeps staring back at me, blankly.
I like some surreal art, so something along those lines might get things going. To this end I did a quickish pen and wash of one idea, but it's too derivative. An eye bursting through something is very common in surreal art, so that's gone on the backburner. Here's the small pen and wash idea...
Then I thought I'd do something about the Hunchback of Notre Dame, I considered layouts etc, and went off the boil again. (There must be something wrong with my kettle.) After staring at a blank page in my sketchbook I thought I'd just draw the three main characters from the Hunchback story. This is nothing like the picture I had in mind. But it's something...here it is at the moment...
Almost done Quasimodo, penciled in Esmeralda, and there'll be another panel for the Archbishop...so, three small panels rather than one whole painting. This is in water-soluble coloured pencils.
None of this is desperate, I'm doing something. It would be nice to turn out a fully fledged painting. Sometimes, talking about it on the forum helps get my ducks in a row.
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All three of these are beautiful Lewis! The woman’s face is comedy gold! I know it’s hard to get some momentum going when you’re just not feeling it...been there plenty of times myself, including six months off after a particularly disastrous commission...but I think your approach of working every day is an excellent move. Again, I try to do the same - and I think the discipline of doing so, whilst a slog at first, ultimately pays off. I look forward to seeing progress - now, crack on! 😁
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Well done for keeping up your art work every day. I stopped for a week and am finding it really hard to get going again. I don’t know about getting all your ducks in a row, but you have certainly got your fish in a row. It reminded me of a drawing I did at school in RE. I was drawing the Exodus from Egypt, and I imagined that all the fish got together to form 2 walls to keep back the sea, so the Israelites could get away! I seem to remember that they were all neatly lined up, showing their heads apart from one who only showed his tail. There had to be the odd one out. I had other interesting drawings in this school book illustrating stories from the bible, including a woman hammering her husbands head in a tent. I can’t remember who the character was now, but remember the bible as a great source of inspiration. All human life is there.
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That sounds a fascinating drawing book you had at school, Linda. You don't say if you still have it. I wish I'd kept some of the stuff from my childhood days...at the time you don't think it matters. The head battering thing sounds odd...and from the bible??
I've saved a few of my grandson's art pieces, as photos at least. Here's one my youngest grandson did, we were painting together, he was about 4 at the time and loved the mess he could make with paint. This is the earliest I have of his....
I asked him what it was about, and he very seriously gave me the above explanation. (We'd been talking about how we used to have milk delivered, and left on our doorstep...can't remember how that came up.)
I asked him what it was about, and he very seriously gave me the above explanation. (We'd been talking about how we used to have milk delivered, and left on our doorstep...can't remember how that came up.)
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I didn’t know you could get milk delivered half way up a mountain. I just checked and I don’t think I still have my school books anymore; I’ve moved many times since I was 13. I will have to do some research to see who happened a nail into her husband’s head. Sarah? .Rebecca? Naomi? Strangely the husband looked a lot like the man I shared 16 years with later in life. And no I didn’t hammer a nail in his head.
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