Art Spirals

Well, I've been away from the EDM yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/everydaymatters) -- EVeryday Drawing Matters yahoo group...and they are almost at their 200th weekly challenge. I'm happy to say I've caught up to this week's, and last...but as for the bulk of the others? I have a long way to go!

anyway, here they are: EDM 192 -- draw somethign that floats

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And EDM 191 -- Draw paper money

From Everyday Matters Challenges (yahoo group)

Sorry about the wavy paper. I did the second on the backside of the first, and the sketchbook paper isn't strong enough for that. the money one is my favorite of the two...it commemorates a backyard camping adventure with our kids, one of their friends, and her mom. Six of us, hence the $6. It was a glorious starry sky, so we had no rainfly....sad to say, the rain came at 7 am...after a fitful night of sleeping, I was DRAGGING the next day.

The water hyacinths was a quick draw near dusk. I'll try them again another time.

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pencil first, then pen in large sketchbook

It took me quite awhile, over an hour to do this one, doesn't LOOK like it should have taken me so long, but I had a hard time figuring out how to get the raised squares of glass on the shakers to look right. in the morning light, they looked too boxy, but I don't want to go back in there and try again. I'm moving on...

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Pencil, pen, watercolor wash in large sketchbook

I like this one a whole lot better! I have SO much to do this weekend in preparation for having family company, but I'm continuing to sketch everyday. Hope I can keep doing this next week too.

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Pen and pencil in Square HandBook

Parts of this are ok, but I really messed up the shadow of the shell soap, and I am too tired to redo it tonight. Do over tomorrow!

Funny how you don't see these things until it's scanned and up there -- the right side of the bar is slanted too much out to the right at the top corner, needs to be parallel with th eleft side. and the soap's shadow is way off. The shell soap is still in its plastic wrapper so it has a glint to it in the lamplight that I left without shading, but it doesn't gleam as it does in real life. Expecting too much of myself right now.

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Pen in Square HandBook

Another two challenges in one drawing: Challenges 8 (draw a watch or other piece of jewelry) and 40 (draw something with folds in it.)

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Ink and watercolor in Square HandBook

I'm considering this EDM challenge #62, draw a previous challenge in a medium you don't use much -- and since I'm a novice at all of this, i figure it counts. Here's my last attempt. Today I was on a roll -- I'm pleased with this shoe too, done on the facing page of the HandBook. Have I mentioned yet how much I love this sketchbook? It came highly recommended on the EverydayMatters yahoo group I purchased mine from Dick Blick, but there are other places to buy it. Going "over the edge" is great! and the pages buckle a bit with washes, but calm right down when dry. The square size is great, it easily scans, fits in most purses. neat. The only thing I wish it had were a pen/pencil holder. Small matter...

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Pen in Square HandBook

Tired day today, no "me" time before the kids got up. I'm sketching always feeling apprehensive that I won't be allowed the time to concentrate and focus, so I do my sketches sloppily. But I know why it's happening. anyway, here's a blind contour of some ornamental gourds, and then I used the drawing simple shapes technique, to map out the space and then do the details, and for the kind of morning it is, I'm calling it DONE.

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Ink and woodless colored pencils in Square HandBook

Here's a lovely cup and saucer set I recently "splurged" on at an estate sale -- I laid down $3 for this set because I loved it so much! It's a nice hefty weight, Homer Lauflin, made for diners/restaurants, and I just adore the colors and the pattern around it. It is a squarish cup, but now quite as angular as I've pictured it (wincing now as I look at it the next morning) I really like that I saw and tried to capture the reflection of the design of the saucer in the cup itself. This will be the Everyday Matters group Challenge #4. Draw your cup.

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Pen in Square HandBook

Everyday Matters Challenge no. 25. Draw a glass you drink from. This one is vintage iridescent gold festival glass, pressed glass -- note the seam on the side. The base is squarish. The sketch felt bare without some context, but I didn't want to fully sketch in the vase near it.

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Wobbly pen in Square HandBook while dh drove car through torrential rain

I thought the "roaming" message on my cell phone display was oh so appropriate! Challenge no. 13. And here's another quick, waiting for lunch with the kids, sketch of a coffee bean jar...no it's not a bulb sprouting in a glass.

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Pen in Square HandBook