I made this digitally from a promp from Alena Hennessy in Cultivating Your Creative Life

Sea Shells

 Digital art inspired by sea shells

Sound of Apparition Rising From the Lake

This is my last assignment for class. It was fun to play with the colored pencils for a change and try something soft. Kinda fun to try with creating a transparent effect too.

Touching the Stars

Life and Death Balance Assignment

For this I worked on copier paper with Bic Markers. The requirement was to create a balanced design that represented life on one side of the "truck" and death on the other.

Classmate Sketch

A Very Small Square Story

The goal was to show depth by a variety of devices, using one particular shape repeatedly. This is a photo of the work. Turned out nicely again. Well the work did. The photography needs help.

Four Textures in Pen and Ink

I am taking an art class at my nearby community college. It is Two Dimensional Design. So far I have loved it although I have overdone every assignment. I have not posted heretofore because I didn't have the right SD card for my old computer and then I forgot to take a pix before I turned in the work. But today, I finished the pen and ink assignment on textures. It turned out very very nice.

Blind Contour Drawing of Vie Sunrider by Ilka Hartmann

I am now in my 22nd hour. It is interesting that when I started the project I was at a loss about what to draw and now I want to draw so many things. I used to not want to do it and regarded it as a chore. Now it is more of an adventure. I am so interested in patterns. Probably relateded to my earlier work in fabric repair. But they are often so representative of humans. We seem to cover ourselves in them and as such they do represent humanity. I am going to try to post the source photo here. It is a photograph by Ilka Hartmann . . .forgive me Ilka I do not have your permission. But oh so beautiful. Please visit her site by the way.

Blind Contour Drawing of Closet

For fun I think I will post some of these . . . might as well join the masses.

Blind Contour Drawings

I have seen a lot of this work on the web and what I noticed was that the artists were generally quite self satisfied with their work. The project (assignment) is usually described as looking at a subject and making the drawing of the same without looking at the subject. The number of assigned repetions vary. I decided to do the project myself and being somewhat masochistic I decided to do thirty hours as recommended by one teacher. I used a timer and tracker to keep myself honest and over 2 months have produced over 300 drawings . . .and racked up about 20 actual hours. The project is difficult for me but rewarding as I have learned to see and appreciate minute details that I have always missed before. I am much more patient in the looking aspects of drawing.

Further, I have realized that humans really only see in abstraction. They take all the little abstract afferemena and organize it in their brains to produce a useful meaning. Ya I know this is likely not a new finding.

I am posting a Blind Contour Drawing of a Geisha and a cat, taken from a historical drawing of the same, artist unknown. I dont think there is enough resemblance to violate any copywrite . . . but well anyway. As abstract as this is . . . it is beautiful to me.

Character Sketch Asima 1

Plan

Not really flat enough to scan well, but here it is anyway.

Infant Girl

Wings

I finally branched out from watercolor and tried a little bit of mixed media. It was so fun even though it was a guided activity.

Portrait Baby Boy at Two Months

Christmas Stocking Project

I knitted seven Christmas stockings many years ago and now it is time to knit some more. However, in the meantime I lost the original pattern book, so I made up a new pattern. It is better because it does not have a seam up the back and because the stockings are not as big. In addition I decided to make them from a wool/acrilyc blend yarn. My knitting style has also changed over the years.

I also have been frustrated by knitting patterns in general. Specifically because they are written in a knitting abbreviations. There is no place to check off rows as you go and it is easy to get mixed up. I designed a knitting worksheet that specifies exactly what is happening in each row and there is a place to check off each row. I might try this for other patterns as well. It makes sense, really.

In the end I have a book that has my new pattern, the alphabet patterns, the design patterns for these stockings and a few extra resources.

Happy Couple

Rose 80

Rose 79