This week’s prompt was favorite imaginary animal. I’d thought about gelflings and griffins and then looked up and saw my plush Peep collection, and decided to draw that instead.
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Journal52 – Week 10
Posted by melydia on June 20, 2016
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The two prompts this week were “emerge” and “what lies beneath”. I decided to incorporate both in my page, plus try out some new pens my husband gave me: Sakura Glaze. Very pretty, but the scan doesn’t do the shine justice.
Sketchbook Peek: Happy Creek
Posted by melydia on June 19, 2016
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The day before Memorial Day I was supposed to go on a sketchcrawl at the National Zoo. However, I’d underestimated the traffic-snarling power of Rolling Thunder. When it took me two hours just to get to Arlington, I decided to stay west of the Potomac and wandered aimlessly down I-66 until I stopped randomly in The Plains. After grabbing lunch at the farmer’s market, I stopped in Happy Creek Coffee and Tea and tried their nitro cold brew coffee. Quite tasty, even if I did have a little bit of trouble with the proportions of my glass.
(And yes, I know it says Honey Creek. I fixed it after scanning.)
Because the cafe shares its space with Haymarket Bicycles, there was a gorgeous chandelier made of bicycle parts and coffee paraphernalia. It was quite fun to draw.
So even though I missed the sketchcrawl, I’m glad I still took the time to do a little sketching on my own.
Sketchbook Peek: Echo
Posted by melydia on April 11, 2016
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I was at Peet’s Coffee in Falls Church, Virginia, for Draw Night with some fellow local sketchers. I wasn’t too inspired by my surroundings, but one of the others was drawing from a photograph so I decided to do so as well. This is my cat, Echo. I drew this with a Prismacolor 05 drawing pen and highlighted with colored pencils. Took about 20-30 minutes, as do most of the ink drawings I do from photographs.
Klimt
Posted by melydia on April 10, 2016
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Rosie’s Boys
Posted by melydia on April 9, 2016
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My friend Dave asked me to draw the “We Can Do It” guy. I said, “Rosie the Riveter?” He said yes, that’s who he meant. Well, it turns out those are two different people. The guy who did the We Can Do It poster was J. Howard Miller:
And the guy who did the picture of Rosie the Riveter was Norman Rockwell:
It turns out that the We Can Do It poster wasn’t associated with Rosie the Riveter until well after the war had ended. So there you have it: art and a history lesson, all in one!
Waterhouse
Posted by melydia on April 8, 2016
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Dr. Seuss
Posted by melydia on April 7, 2016
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I commented on Facebook something about how you know you’re doing something right when people give you drawing requests because they want to see the end product and not just because they think you’re looking for ideas. A friend replied “Do Dr. Seuss!” I think he probably meant for me to draw something in the style of Dr. Seuss, but I’m still on my dead artists kick.
Seurat
Posted by melydia on April 6, 2016
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Gauguin
Posted by melydia on April 5, 2016
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