Tomorrow a Peach

I fully intended to draw two beautiful peaches resting on a brilliant blue plate. They were beautiful too, but we ate them. So here is a tea cup in a book instead. Tomorrow I'll try again with more peaches, while they're still in season.

#119 More Rocks

Another attempt at the rock challenge. It's kind of therapeutic, figuring out the relationships between things or setting up a still life and deciding why you did it that way.

It's hard to keep the developed area focused, instead of working evenly all over a drawing, I find. There should be a little voice in my head that screams "stop!" right before I overwork it. Maybe I should keep working looser and looser until it just verges on abstraction. Thanks to everyone for all the encouraging feedback.

Troubles with collage

The subject of collage came up in a comment, so I wanted to mention this. National Geographics are one of the best for "natural" colors and mysterious-looking textures. It's also fun to make as many of the edges as possible out of things that are already edges in a photo. I kept a box of the mags for years, but finally used them for this about 3 years ago. I doubt it's lightfast, especially in Phoenix. Last week I stood on my bed to get this photo (hence the blur) and put it on the computer. I'm still tinkering with the colors in Photoshop.

So maybe worrying about colorfastness is less important than remembering to take a picture of whatever it is! I've also heard you can section up a collage to color copy it and reassemble.

This was inspired by the Tut exhibit that came to San Francisco back in the (80's?) and a postcard I got there. The collage is about 2 x 3 feet, & done on Office Depot poster board. I used rubber cement, which is also bad. Not very archival. Maybe there could be an EDM Challenge to do a drawing and then do a collage of the drawing and post them side by side.

#119 - Draw Some Rocks

#119 - Draw some rocks:

This is my first, but not my last Challenge. I do know that rocks, eggs, and the like are particularly hard. Confession: I took liberties to invent some irregularities that weren't there, because it was starting to look too much like the mango I drew a few days ago!
I'm looking forward to being in the EDM group. Soon as I learn more about feeds, I would like to join the superblog.