Happy Mother's Day and welcome to Week 19 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! 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!
#127 Fill the page with things that are the color pink. I had the hardest time thinking of things that were pink. Seriously... my favorite one is my pink "It's a girl!" balloon. I was desperate! I even tried to do a piece of dubble bubble gum in the bottom left. What else is pink?!
#128 Design a floral pattern. This just turned into a free motion quilting motif that was inspired off of Instagram! I need to figure out the transition from the center to the pedals and then the swirls around. Either way, it was really fun to doodle and something I should do more often.
#129 Draw something you've never drawn before. I had to ask the hubby for inspirations for this. He goes "what about a sawfish? I bet you have never drawn a sawfish." Well... he was right, I had to google what a sawfish looked like. They look pretty weird. (check them out here)
#130 Explore colors that look good together. We've done this exercise in the past but with 3 different colors. Having a 4th color let me choose an accent color with a family of colors. I think this would be a fun exercise to do with different quilt color palettes.
#131 Another exercise to try when drawing on location is to draw the negative space around a building, rather than the building itself. Here I have started off by painting the sky around the skyscrapers, and have added in details such as windows. I decided to use watercolor to paint in the sky around the house. Then I went back in and filled in the details to the house. I think this would work much better if I used a skyline. The version I made just looks like I drew a house and colored in the sky!
#132 Cut a piece of fruit in half and draw what you see. The apple was printed in the book. We have done a similar exercise a few weeks ago when I drew an orange from memory. We happened to have strawberries when I drew the half strawberry! I used colored pencil, and I realized that the white Prismacolor was really nice to shade and blend in the red parts of the strawberry.
#133 Add color or patterns to the shapes. Can you figure out the pattern I used to color in this page? I use a light and a dark of each of the primary colors. Dark colors would be 2 circles of the same color overlapped. When different colors overlapped, then it created the secondary colors. If all 3 primary color circles overlapped, then I used all 3 colors to shade in that section that turned it an odd shade of brown.
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!
We are slowly creeping into the middle section of the book! This is the part where I feel most people, myself included, start to feel fatigued in any project. It's best to think of the exercises one week at a time, rather than we are only getting part way through the book! Start sharing your exercises to keep yourself motivated to keep on going!
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