This was the challenge this past week for the Everyday Matters group. And a tough challenge it was too! It took me all week to decide on a subject and then gather the courage to make the drawing. I chose to do a tangerine in a plastic bag. (In case you're wondering what that is.) I'm not especially satisfied with the result, the subject seems pretty difficult to read. The problem is trying to see the tangerine 'through' the plastic bag and without just seeing the plastic. And of course not only does the tangerine have highlights and shadows but the plastic bag has all those wrinkles of highlights and shadows as well. Yeah, I got confused too when I was drawing it! (And I do apologize for the poor scans of these drawings. My little sketchbook is too thick for my scanner to close properly so every drawing scanned from it has that shadowed area. Oh well.)
On another note I did cross off one of my 2008 art goals from my list this week. I finally got around to setting up a gallery site for my art.
You can take a peek here- www.nemcoskyart.com
After checking out other artists' websites for inspiration I decided to go with a web site building service rather than creating my own from my old, out-dated web design software. It was very easy to set up and will be simple to keep up with down the road. And since becoming a web designer is not on my list of things to do this is all I need at the moment. Plus look at the time I'm saving for making art rather than struggling with building web pages from scratch! Yippee!
BEAUTIFULLY DONE, ANN! Folds, highlights -- very nice!
ReplyDeleteIt is beautifully done, the folds and shape are great.
ReplyDeleteIt is an interesting blog about your choice of subject, often we do draw what we think others expect. Yet as you say, we are all more comfortable with certain subjects and materials.
Your work is lovely on your new website, of course it is the leaves I love.
This is wonderful! Super highlights and shadows and nice solid feeling shape -- you can tell it's underneath the plastic, if you know what I mean. Great job!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous work!
ReplyDeletevery nice
ReplyDeleteYou did a fabulous job on all those little highlights and shadows! it was a difficult challenge, but you did it beautifully. (And your new website is very nice!)
ReplyDeleteThank you all for stopping by and your nice comments! It was a difficult challenge!
ReplyDeleteI think this turned out very well, Ann. It was a difficult challenge. (I visited your new gallery website. Your colored pencil landscapes are beautiful, as are the graphite renderings!)
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