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Not My Shoe

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Lesson 5 of my online sketch and watercolor class covers Shoes. Only in my closet, all I could see were black shoes, brown shoes, grey shoes, and running shoes so dusty the original bright colors were obscured. Hubby’s shoes weren’t any more exciting than mine.

I actually shopped at Goodwill just for this lesson. I kept in mind shape, texture, and color; I wasn’t interested in the shoe size. While I was there I thought maybe I could find some colorful cowboy boots.

No. No cowboy boots at all. Curses! Foiled again.

The shoe being sketched and painted.

The subject.

 

The warm up exercise. A continuous line drawing with the Tombow pen where I discovered I have a heavy hand leading to thick, thick lines.

The warm up exercise. A continuous line drawing with the Tombow pen where I discovered I have a heavy hand leading to thick, thick lines.

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Let’s just say that New York won’t be calling me to illustrate their new shoe line for next year.

Too, Too Something

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Lesson 4 of my online sketch and watercolor class covered flowers. I knew not to use a rose, as they are just problematic for beginners. I went to the only two stores in my area that sold flowers. Other than roses and orchids, there wasn’t much of a selection. I ended up with brightly dyed flowers.

Really pink

Too pink?

The flower isn’t particularly recognizable from my paintings. I’m calling that “an artist’s interpretation.” That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

First try: Too monochromatic

First try: Too monochromatic

Second try: Petals too similar

Second try: Petals too uniform

Third try: Color too light

Third try: Color too light

Fourth try: Too tired to do another one

Fourth try: Too tired to do another one. This is the one I posted to my online class as my homework assignment.

Continuous Line Drawing

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Lesson 3 of my online sketch and watercolor class is an exercise in continuous line drawing. Once we start, we don’t pick up our pen until we’ve finished the drawing. There’s no preliminary drawing in pencil, either. I did practice once before drawing on the watercolor paper.

I started out with one object, just to see how it went.

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Then I used all three peppers. Fortunately, the peppers were on sale at the grocery store.

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Once I started painting, I saw I missed some definition, especially on the red pepper.

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The bonus lesson was to use our non-dominate hand to draw. Now there’s an adventure! It’s a pin cushion in the shape of an easy chair. I didn’t want to paint it black, so I decided to use purple instead.

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Orange & White Quilt #1

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I made this quilt for hubby. I collected Texas fabrics and orange fabrics for a few years before deciding on a pattern I liked.

The front

The front

back of the quilt

The back

All the quilts were quilted by Mary Golden in Cedar Creek, Texas. Everyone in our immediate family now has a quilt. I used my serger to make most of these quilts. Here are the links to them, in chronological order.

Brother-in-law’s quilt

Brother’s quilt

Quilts for two uncles

Sister-in-law’s quilt

This quilt is not one of my UFOs; those are still in queue. If you inferred the “#1” in “Orange & White Quilt #1” implies there is an “Orange & White Quilt #2,” you are correct. It’s just a matter of time for it to appear (also not one of the UFOs).