Lesson 6 of my online sketch and watercolor class is the last lesson. The subject: machine-made objects. This turned out to be difficult for me to choose an object, as I kept wandering around the house, rejecting most items “too hard to draw” (this included many glass objects).
The ceramic cat was a gift from a friend many years ago. Usually the objects I sketch and watercolor are larger than my sketch; not this time. The watercolor paper is 5×7 inches.
A ceramic cat
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 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.
Let’s just say that New York won’t be calling me to illustrate their new shoe line for next year.
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.
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
Second try: Petals too uniform
Third try: Color too light
Fourth try: Too tired to do another one. This is the one I posted to my online class as my homework assignment.
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.
Then I used all three peppers. Fortunately, the peppers were on sale at the grocery store.
Once I started painting, I saw I missed some definition, especially on the red pepper.
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.
Lesson 2 of my online watercolor class covers “Greens.” I made a chart and used it to paint three leaves. (When I painted the leaves, the left one was not curled over like it is in the photo.) It wasn’t until I uploaded the painting photo to my computer that I noticed that some of the greens aren’t near dark enough.
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