Week 42 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! This week is the week of accidental transfers from exercise to exercise. 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!
#288 Create a page of fields. What could be in them? Looking at the patches of the field I kept thinking of a patchwork improv quilt! I didn't intentionally put anything in the fields because of this. However, if you look closely there is a carved pumpkin in the field...
#289 Explore colors that look good together. Fill in the boxes with colors that you think work well side by side. I wonder how many color combinations I've repeated through the duplication of this exercise. I tried yet again to pick colors that I normally wouldn't choose to be close together.
#290 Fill a page with things that are the color orange. Well here's the pumpkin! When I drew on this page, it inked over the pumpkin inadvertently into my field. I also am well aware that the candle and sun are usually yellow, but they can be orange and yellow right? Also, a Dorito chip is much harder to draw than I initially thought, hence the label.
#291 Add details to the leaves. It never ceases to amaze me how the lines that you draw in the splotch of color create so much more interest in the object.
#292 Blind drawings teach us to see as well as just look. Draw someone without looking at your page. Just look closely at their face and the shapes and angles. It may not be pretty, but it's great practice. Use the opposite page to create your blind portrait. The image on the left side of the page was printed in the book and does not accurately depict what someone NOT looking at the page would draw. The right side which looks a little muddied because the watercolor on the next page inked through is what I drew. Here's the photo I took right after the exercise that doesn't have the damage from the watercolor:
Nick and I had a great laugh since I blindly drew him. It's very difficult to figure out where you left off going from one part to the next. I didn't go in the best order either to keep all the facial features together. It really just seems like the image needs to be smushed together more to make it an actual face! Oh well, I tried and it was a rather hilarious exercise. (Editors Note: It's VERY hard to see, but my nose is actually above my eyes--but centered very well)
#293 Use this page to paint or draw some skies. I should have used colored pencils, but I used watercolor and it bled through the page. That is the only complaint I have with this book, the pages were not made for watercolor. Otherwise, it's been great. I'm not good at making a believable sky. The grey sky was printed, I did the next 3. I think the sunrise seems to be the most realistic, but it's still very stratified with the color.
#294 Experiment with shading to color in these pears. Try using the pencils in different ways. Be playful. Maybe I overthought "different ways" but I couldn't really figure out how else to make marks inside the pears so I duplicated a few of them with just different colors.
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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