The shop was closed and the lighting dimmed for the night.
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Not My Shoe
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.
Summer Crocs, Sketch 072
You may have noticed that a lot of my sketch objects are from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They have quite the collection of practically everything! But, as I do have shoes of my own, I thought I’d include at least one pair in my Shoe Series.
Cheesy looking
I have two pair of Crocs: a summer pair (the green, with holes) and a winter pair (black, no holes). I only wear them in the yard. The green, hole-y ones are too cold in the winter and the black, solid ones are too hot in the summer.
Summer Crocs, with the holes for air ventilation
Sketch 072: Summer Crocs (not the Metropolitan Museum of Art, although I did search the online collection after I sketched mine, wondering if, indeed, they had a pair. None showed up. Maybe I should donate mine. Hmmmm . . . )
Here are links to some of the museum’s shoes that caught my eye.
Rosenbloom’s Slippers red, with tassels
Shoes by Steven Arpad, with quite the upturn at the toe
Papyrus Sandals, Sketch 071
A good design lives forever
I worked this sketch twice trying to get the angle right; it’s still not aligned to the photo.
circa 1580-1479 BCE; Egypt; Papyrus
Sketch 071: Pair of Papyrus Sandals; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922
Silk Mule, Sketch 070
Fascinating that this shoe dates from the early 1700s. A lasting design.
early 1700s; European; silk, linen, leather
Sketch 070: Silk Mule; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Herman Delman, 1954
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