Todays Paintings 23/07/09

I am sorry the quality of the pictures is poor.. All paintings are 5"x7" I forgot to take a photo of the framed one before framing. I don't know why the pictures look distorted?? They look perfectly alright in person. They will all be matted and framed the same, in these delightful wooden frames I picked up yesterday while I was out shopping..

I need to tend to the giraffes teeth, they are a little dirty :D

PS

That giraffe, looks cartoonish in this photo, he doesn't in person. Go figure.. Must be the colour change in uploading, and bad photo.

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 42 (23-07-09)

Draw something from your kitchen

Happy Piggy

Just so as you know that I have been doing something even if it wasn't drawing.
I needed to do another piggy and this is where I am with this one...
9" X 12" acrylic on block canvas

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 41(22-07-09) No I am not a closet drinker.....

Tania has 3 bottles of wine stashed on the top shelf of my wardrobe. She said they are special, to her, good year or something, and she doesn't want them touched. The stuff in the boxes down in the garage is fair game, but I keep forgetting it is there. Sheesh. Oh well, I don't drink alone anyway, so I will have to invite her around for a roast chook dinner, and wine.. :p

A4 sketchbook B's and H's graphite

Day 41-My pretty dress shoe

I go to my closet, and on my floor, I literally FALL across this shoe..so I figured I'd draw it. Spent way too long on it, and the shadow on the toe part isn't right, but Smirnoff could be a contributing factor on that one. hahaha Anywho...here's my shoe..hey..that rhymed. :D

My Day 40.

Hope you guys don't mind, but I'm trying to catch myself up in classes, so I'd like to put this in as my day 40 drawing. Also, this is my first blending try.

DRAWING CHALLENGE DAY 41(22-07-09)

Go to your wardrobe, have a look on the shelf, or the floor, and choose one thing to draw..

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.. :)