Week 11 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! Thank you to my awesome blog readers for keeping me accountable. I am actually impressed that I've made it this far consistently! If you haven't started yet, no worries! The link up at the bottom of the post will be open all year so be sure to check back to see what other fellow creatives have made with this week's exercises. Read more about the challenge here.
Without further ado, here are my 7 for this week… the good, bad, and ugly!
#70 Add shadows to the glass bottles. I don't think that I captured the shadows 100% correctly. This exercise would be way easier to do if I was actually just drawing what I saw. My shadows sort of split in two different directions in the middle, so I'd assume that the sun should be closer to the center of the page.
#71 Color in or design a pattern. These are the most fun for me because it's like designing quilt patterns! I picked an arrowhead form and tried to repeat the shape in different shades of blue. I don't know if I'm sold on the placement, but I think this would look fun in a quilt.
#72 Add trees to this half page. This is a repeat of a previous exercise. However, I found it much easier to mix my watercolors to make some pretty cool looking trees! Soon the real life trees outside will also have leaves, and I will be dying of allergies.
#74 Draw the weather today. It was so sunny and windy! I decided to play with water color again, and the sun was easy to draw. Depicting wind is a lot tougher, so the wavy blue stripes are my best attempt at wind.
#75 Draw something in nature that you've seen today. I should have drawn this outside actually looking at a barren tree. However, I was doing this from memory and it's way harder to do.
#76 Draw an object using colored pencils. Use this colored background as a mid-tone. Use light colors to draw highlights and darker colors to draw the shadows. Ummm... what?! So I have no idea what I was supposed to do for this exercise, see my question marks! I ended up giving myself a shot at drawing vases and shadows like the first exercise this week. I'm terribly puzzled by this exercise, so if you know what it was asking, please enlighten me!
#77 Explore colors that look good together. Some of the boxes were already filled, but the last 2 rows were completely blank. I feel like the rows that already had a color pre-filled were more fun to do. My last two rows ended up unconsciously being cool colors and warm colors. I think there was more variety in the first three rows.
Now that we've all had a good chuckle and/or grimace, I encourage you to join in the fun and expand your creative horizons too!
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