Pencil sketch, water colour pencils but no water used. I found the angles interesting; I always seem to pick a difficult arrangement, but then I enjoy the challenge of drawing it, and hopefully it's of interest to the viewer too.
13 October 2008
6 October 2008
EDM 23 Your Foot
Found this challenging, probably because my foot was resting on a footstool and the angle was odd. The curve of the arch took lots of trial lines and lots of erasings. I thought the shape was simple, but no. Well, it's all about a challenge, isn't it.
4 October 2008
EDM 22 A Piece Of Clothing
Crazy design, designed to drive you crazy trying to capture it with w/colour pencils.
1 October 2008
EDM 21 Something Old, Antique or Vintage
Probably not what you'd expect for this exercise, but my beloved Book Press is definitely Old. I bought it 6 years ago and it was in a real mess - rusty, dirty, paint peeling, inhabited by spiders. I enjoyed restoring it to it's present beautiful state.
28 September 2008
EDM 20 Something "Dad"
This is a bit teary for me - Dad passed away last year, and I'm still finding it difficult to deal with. Parents are such special people and you only get one set, so tell them you love them while you have the opportunity.
EDM 19 Something You've Made
I handmade many of these beautiful bookmarks. They were purchased by friends for gifts as well as for themselves. I kept only two for myself, and this one adorns one of my very favourite books.
EDM 18 A View From A Window
It is nice to back onto a reserve. Many varieties of birds visit on a daily basis, as well as neighbourhood dogs with their owners. When there's no dogs around, my cat Bella and I sit in the reserve and enjoy the peace.
25 September 2008
EDM 17 A Musical Instrument
I lived in South Africa for 2 years (many moons ago), and this is one of my very few souvenirs from that time. A cool instument.
23 September 2008
EDM 16 A Favourite Tool
We have a local French Market that operates mainly on Saturdays. It's amazing. It's called La Cigale. I bought these for $10 and they are just the coolest tool for chopping herbs in triplicate!
EDM 15 Tree, Trees, Leaf, Leaves
I sat on a boardwalk bench with the wind tossing my hair everywhere, and my watercolour paints balanced on my leg while I painted this - not bad, considering!
EDM 14 What I See When I Get Up In The Morning
My favourite book, given to me many years ago by a very dear friend. I use it as a perpetual calendar with friends' birthdays noted in it. I'm a cat lover and have never become tired of the beautiful cat photos in my "Cat Lover's Companion".
22 September 2008
EDM 13 Telephone
Thank goodness for this old 'phone in the laundry - it's the only one that works during a power cut.
EDM 11 Glasses or Sunglasses
I got my sunglasses out of the car and casually dropped them on my desk and this is how they landed. A bit of a challenging angle, but it made me look very very closely at them and I enjoyed drawing them.
EDM 10 Your Hand or Someone Else's
My EDM partner in crime and I got together for a day and worked on a sketch. I drew my hand holding a coffee cup, looking at it in a mirror, but I couldn't get the foreshortening of the back of the hand right. The next day I was having lunch with my father-in-law, and surprised him when I asked him to stop eating while I took a photo of his hand, and voila! This is much better than my first attempt.
EDM 9 Organised Chaos
One of my very favourite things in my studio, is this wooden box of stamps that I have made. They are mainly carved into corks, or have been carved into an eraser and then mounted on corks. A huge challenge considering my very limited experience with the unforgiving watercolour medium, but after a lot of effort, I am quite pleased with the result.
12 September 2008
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