DRAWING CHALLENGE Day EIGHTEEN (18) PEAR

6*x8" sketchbook - graphite

Where I live .....

Trying to send, any of you on Facebook, this link to some beautiful photographs of Ballycastle. Copy and paste this link:
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DRAWING CHALLENGE Day EIGHTEEN (18)

I am peckish, been raiding the dried apricot jar, had to walk past the fruit bowl.


That is what we will draw tomorrow.



A PEAR!!!


Have fun.

Anne you can do this woman, can't you?? :-)

If you don't have a pear go buy one, if they are not in season in Ireland then draw some other fruit that is .:-)))) x

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY SEVENTEEN (17) JAR

Was a coffee jar, now my marshmallow jar. I should have left the marshmallows in it, and drawn a straight-sided jar lol. Man this was a *itch to draw.
A4 sketchbook Graphite..

After getting up at 4.00am, at the market and setting up at 6.00am, working hard all day selling paintings and art supplies, I come home at 4.00pm and after a quick cuppa - reheated dinner - I settle down to drawing my jar. It is now 12.30am Monday and I heading for bed Yawn!!!

Oh where's Anne btw :D

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY SEVENTEEN (17)

So today............... let me think, ummmmmmm............ Oh I know!!!!!!!!


Go get an empty glass jar and draw it... Lid off.

DRAWING CHALLENGE Day SIXTEEN (16) Guess what??

Of course if you have show all images activated, you will already know I drew an egg. Years ago I went back to high school as an adult student. Art was one of the subjects I took.
For 12 months all we did was draw eggs. We drew dot eggs, cross hatched eggs, plain eggs white eggs, brown eggs, you name it it was an egg.. I had a portfolio full of eggs. I hated eggs and never drew another one for many many years. I have drawn very few eggs since then actually, so tonight I looked in the fridge, and the eggs jumped out at me. :D

I drew this in the first page of my brand new 50 page sketch book.. A4 - Graphite..

For your amusement ....and my stress ....

Here is my brave and "likes to live dangerously" hubby up the ladder yesterday. That bottom ladder actually would be long enough to reach the top as it is in 3 layers but with the shape of the house and the steps at the front door then it is no use ....that is why he needs to do it this way..... and worse still.... at one point I had to go out and put my foot on the right foot of the bottom ladder as the left ladder foot had nowhere to sit ....it was in mid air!!! ..... unfortunately he is not finished yet and will be climbing later on today ....and he has meniere's syndrome but thankfully has not had an attack since last July thanks probably to the medicine he takes .......stress stress stress .....

DRAWING CHALLENGE Day SIXTEEN (16)

Go to your refrigerator.

Take a look inside.

Pick one thing.

Draw it.

:)

If this fork looks stressed out ......

If my fork looks stressed out ...... then it is ...... because I was stressed out while I was drawing it! That husband of mine was up on a ladder at the top of the house trying to fix a cracked slate or something ..... sounds simple enough but with the shape of our house he needed 2 ladders ..... He had one tied to the other and the top one hooked over the top of the roof. As "extra security" he had a rope tied to the top ladder, then coming down over the other side of the house and tied to a tree ..... why do some men like to live dangerously ....I thought I was going to have a heart attack ....
.....so that's the explanation for the stressed looking fork!! LOL

DRAWING CHALLENGE Day FIFTEEN (15) FORK

I set my dessert fork up on a piece of white printer paper, directed my lamp onto it, to get nice long shadows and drew it.

6X8 inches. Last page of my sketchbook..

DRAWING CHALLENGE Day FIFTEEN (15)

Draw a Fork!

Cone

I had to do this one quickly, before I head out for the night, because I knew JJ would be shouting at me if I didn't...LOL

DRAWING CHALLENGE Day FOURTEEN (14) Cone

Here is my set up, and here is my cone. There are 5 values on my cone and shadow. I just made it.. :) 6"x8" 2B - 4B - 5B graphite pencils.

MAKING your own LIGHT BOX for a STILL LIFE set-up

Ruth Cox, posted an article on Wet Canvas that is simple to make and uses the method I suggested. CLICK HERE

DRAWING CHALLENGE Day FOURTEEN (14)

If you do not have one, make one. A cone.

Get a piece of cardboard, or printer paper if you don't have cardboard, and make a cone.

Place your cone on a flat surface and put a light source on one side of it. If you don't have a table lamp, use a torch. Now draw the cone with shading. I want to see 5 values please.

TIP:

Get a cardboard box, big enough to put your cone in.

Cut he top off, and the front off. Cut a hole in the side. Place your cone inside the box, and your light source outside the hole. Now you have some pretty neat shading and shadows..

Have fun. :-)))

DRAWING CHALLENGE Day THIRTEEN (13) Tissue Box

6"x8" 2B - 4B graphite pencils.

Challenge for the week 24-30 June

Use an impressionistic style to paint any scene, but before you start, write down a few words that describe the mood or special feeling it invoked when you first saw it. You can paint plein air, or from a photograph but only if you were there when the photograph was taken. When you post your painting, please post your original words unchanged.

DRAWING CHALLENGE Day THIRTEEN (13)

Get a box of tissues, open it, and pull one up. Sit the box on the table and draw it.. Shadows and all..

This one is going to be a good lesson in values, put in at least 5 values, and if necessary use your values tool you made. If you didn't make one, now is your chance..;-)

Sponge Tree

I know, I know, I'm late. No excuses for the one who held your feet to the fire...oh, oh oh ouch....

This again started life as something else. I decided to mix real and surreal here. Acrylic on canvas, 18X30?

DRAWING CHALLENGE Day TWELVE (12) Bowl of Muesli

6"x8" 2B and 4B graphite pencil

DRAWING CHALLENGE Day TWELVE (12)

Draw your breakfast bowl with cereal.. :-))))

My first abstract ....

I have no clue about painting abstracts but I did have fun doing this .....my first one ....

Abstract Challenge

18"x18" on double thickness gallery wrap.

Mackb's Challenge

Mackb, My response to your 'abstract' challenge. I made a few attempts. I have named the first"Global Warming'. The next couple are entitled "Migraine" although I don't think the first of these is strictly abstract because the eyes are recognisable physical forms. What say you?

DRAWING CHALLENGE Day ELEVEN (11)

Do you know what this is?? He really is one of my most favourite ornaments. If you can't guess, I will tell you later...
6"x8" 2B & 4B graphite.