Hello and Good Morning from Portland! Thank you for keeping me accountable to get my artwork creativity in even though I'm still at Quilt Market. It's Week 20 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! Can you believe it?! 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 and catch up on all the previous weeks!
Without further ado, here are my 7 for this week… the good, bad, and ugly!
#134 Draw someone's smile. I used photographs for this because how awkward would it be to ask someone to stay still while I draw their smile! This is my husband's smile in November. I can't really remember where we were at. How do you think I did? The photograph is below.
#135 Draw your favorite building. This may or may not be my most favorite building, but it's the building I think is most iconic in Louisville, where I used to live. This is the Aegon building downtown, and it has this really cool dome top to the skyscraper. It might not even be called the Aegon building anymore, it's been a while since I lived there. Click here for actual photos of the building.
#136 Using cut-out paper, create a pattern in this section. I'm on such a fabric weaving kick, I thought it'd be a good idea to weave paper. It did not turn out to be an easy task with very narrow strips of paper, so I ended up just layering them! I added in the triangles for a little modern flair!
#137 Color In. I used different medias for this one all in blue. Watercolor, pens, colored pencils, and crayon. I also realized that it's a lot more interesting with some white space (known as negative space). Negative space is your friend, remember that.
#138 Fill the page with colorful beetles. I think these types of exercises give me the hardest time. I don't understand how to draw the beetles in such a way that they don't all look the same! I used color pencil to do the bodies and then fine line markers to do the detail. I did change up the detail in the ones that I did. However, you can definitely tell the difference between my hand versus the beetles that were printed with the book.
#139 Calligraphy Practice. One of the things I like and dislike in this book. I enjoy the addition of the calligraphy, but in order to really get good there needs to be pages dedicated to it. I think this is just enough to give a taste for calligraphy or hand lettering, but not for actual practice.
#140 Telephone doodle page. Call someone up for a chat and doodle away! Can anyone guess what my favorite free motion quilting motif is? What about what we were talking about? I love the infinity loop or figure eight. I've been doodling that motif since elementary school, and it's definitely my go to. My friend Laura and I chatted about my move to Kansas City and how she was going to be back in town for Memorial Day so we needed to catch up. All in all, it was fun to doodle on the phone. We don't nearly talk on the phone with people as much as we used to.
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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Your turn! Link up below with one or more of the exercises for this week, so exercises #134-140 for this link up!
A few reminders:
- There is no URL requirement for loading a photo, so anyone can join the fun. If you are having issues, please let me know via the contact page or comment below!
- When you link up a post, please try to support the other folks in the linky party! Let's spread the motivation and support to help everyone making progress in their own time.
- If you are making a blog post, please include a link back to my blog or grab the 365 Days of Art Challenge Button and put it on your sidebar. This way others who visit your blog can also join in on the fun!
- If you are posting to Instagram, use hashtag #365DaysOfArt and #365DaysOfArtPBQchallenge
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