DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 40(21-07-09) Apple revisited

A4 sketchbook H and B graphite

Giraffe II

I painted another giraffe. He is so cute, looking in the opposite direction as the first one. I will hang them together, and call them The Sentinels. 4"x 12" double wrap canvas acrylic.

WEEKLY PAINTING CHALLENGE 21/07/07 - 29/07/09

Our weekly painting challenge, is, to go find one of our drawings, and paint it. Too easy..

Post paintings on Wednesday the 29th please.

Have fun..

Colleen, it is your turn next week, to pick the Challenge. I am turning over a new leaf, and letting you guys know a week in advance, so you can plan something really delicious for us.

Seriously, I am getting more organised.

First Revisit

Ok, so I really need to learn to work my photoshop thing. I'm horrible at it. This looks MUCH better on paper than it does here. Well, anyhow..I've drawn this 3 times now, and while this is the best of them, the letters are still off and I'm not sure how to fix them. I may have to draw this YET again. ugh..anyhow, this is from a class on Wet Canvas.

GAH!! The top is WAY off.. ~sigh~ One day I'll get better..promise. lol

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 40(21-07-09)

Same again. Revisit a drawing you were not happy with.

Have fun!! Seriously.

For those of you who are busy and unwell, don't sweat it. No, not you Anne, get you pencils out woman.. hahahahahaha..

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 39 (20-07-09) Cake Fork revisited.

I was not happy with my cake fork drawing on day 31, 12/7/09 , so I took all the advisement I got from the Drawing and Sketching Forum folks, and I redrew it.

JJ painted today..

4 inches by 12 inches on canvas. There is a highlight in his eye, it just isn't showing in the low resolution of the photo.

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 39 (20-07-09)

Revisit time..

Go back over your past drawings and pick one that you were not happy with, and redraw it..

From my kitchen

Sorry I'm late on this. I haven't been feeling well. It's really hard to draw a straight line when your head is spinning. lol So, feeling a bit better today, so I figured I'd try a bit to catch up.

Something from outside my home ....

Weird that I kinda had the same idea as JJ ....I drew this at a carboot sale .....

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 38 (19-07-09) I am watching you.... :)

I drew this guy at the market today. I used my pastel pencils for the first time. The reference photo was from a friend.. So, I drew it outside my house, and this is something Hey.. :D I am so tired I can't draw anything else today. I was up at 4.00am, and I didn't get home until 6.00pm. I am tired and sore. I did paint two little frog paintings, I will photograph them tomorrow and post them. I quite like them for a change..

P.S.

I didn't realise until after I had photographed this, that there is a watermark on the edge of the paper. Just as well it is a practice drawing.. This pad must have gotten water damaged, the time I was caught in the rain storm at the market.

PPS

The highlights in his eyes. I could not for the life of me get the white pastel pencil to work on top of the darks. No way was it going to show up..:( I forgot to take a pencil sharpener too, so couldn't sharpen the darn pencil either.. (makes not to put sharpener in market bag)

....well it is somehing that was in my kitchen at one time bt thankfully not now ....I hope!!!!

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 38 (19-07-09)

Today, we will draw something from outside our house.

This weeks challenge

Is coming....... I have had a week, where I absolutely haven't stopped, every day, all things not arty too, except for taking my paintings over to the RNA Exhibition.

I have an idea in mind, need to process it more. I will give it thought tomorrow at the markets, and post it tomorrow night..

Thank you for your patience..

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 37 (18-07-09) Shot...

It wasn't easy. Nothing is easy. sigh.... But it was fun, like a jigsaw puzzle putting in all the dark shapes and light shapes and lifting out the highlights..

A4 sketchbook.. Graphite

This IS in my Computer Room

Just clearing that up. haha I needed something somewhat easy tonight because I've been busy all day. It's actually a bit darker than it shows, but I guess my photos aren't that great yet..getting better though. :) I retried the cap, JJ...and refuse to post it because I got frustrated and threw the entire bottle away. lol So, here's one of the pencils that I use very rarely.

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 37 (18-07-09)

Go look in your kitchen cupboards. Choose one thing and draw it. :-))

The Thingy from my PC room ..... hahaha

Well ....actually it's not usually in my PC room but today it was .........and there it goes sideways again .....dammit!!

Edited by JJ. All fixed.. I turned it the same way as you have it on wc.. :)

Here kitty kitty

sketchbook graphite..

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 36 (17-07-09)

Draw something from your computer room :-))

Have fun

From the Laundry Room

Ok, so I don't have much of an imagination right now. So, here's my fabric softener. It took close to 3 hours and by the time I got to the lid, I was sick of it. lol I tried the blending thing this time, and I'm not sure that it turned out well, but that may be because I have absolutely no clue how to blend. hahaha But that's alright..at least I tried. Yes, it DOES have a bend in it on the left..oddly, they've decided to make bottles more interesting looking lately, I suppose.

Weird...for some reason, my darks aren't that dark on the photo..even after me 'fixing' it. So, apparently, everything is a bit darker in my sketchbook than it shows...sorry about that.

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 35 (16-07-09) From the laundry....

So I went down to my laundry two or three times, and nothing grabbed me. Tonight I went back down again, and the shape of my laundry detergent bottle excited me, so I brought it upstairs to my office, put it in my shadow box, and drew it.

A4 sketchbook and graphite.

Yellow ...especially for those of you who hate .... it hahaha

Color Yellow




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DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 35 (16-07-09)

By request, we shall go to our laundry today, and draw something from there. Thank Ree. :-))

Toilet related thing

So, I had to send hubby to the store since we were out of toilet paper. I figured that you all drew most of the stuff I had and I wasn't about to draw the nasty plunger we have, so I'd draw what was LEFT of the toilet paper. :) Well, here it is...all that's left. lol It's really fuzzy, and yes, the top was misshapen like that. My photo wasn't that great, but it's a photo. :) lol