Scottie in the Field

I think the more I do horses, the better I'll get. He has less of a hot dog body, like the drawing I did of Snickers. I don't like how crayon doesn't photograph well, unless you have pressed really hard. I'm still in the mood to experiment with my 120 colors of crayolas. They have a bunch more greens than the old box of 64. This picture looks better in person without the glare of the flash.

Lighthouse

I did this during the week, and as I found the time, I colored it in with colored pencil. You can see the textures, because there were things taped on the page behind this. I find paint is the only thing that covers solid and opaque. I've been very lazy about dragging out the paints lately. I want to draw and color.

Okay, I don't know how to straighten out these pictures, sorry. This weekend I bought a box of 120 crayola crayons. Never had so many colors. I spent 5 minutes just smelling them. I did these horses by myself. They're suppossed to be Snickers the pony. Well, I need improvement. The Van Gogh wanna be, was done with pastel, from my pastel workbook. Let's just say, I don't read directions well. I want to do, not read about it, but something is clearly wrong. You need to layer up your colors from the bottom with pastels. I love to layer them down from the top, but they just end up looking muddy with pastels. I need more ideas, I'm fading fast.

Horses and Ponies

I want to learn how to do horses well. These are not interesting pictures, and I did them very fast, but even though I've been around horses since I was 9 years old, I just don't draw them very well. So, I'm going to keep practicing. I like the pony. For some reason it was easier to do a whole horse. I really struggle with horse heads. I feel like they're too long and skinny and the eyes I get them too high up. Oh well, I'll keep practicing.

Eglise Protestante Evangelique

I did this one on canvas, I didn't try to do anything with light or shadows, to try to make it interesting, it's just flat. I had a photograph as a model, but I took the picture at a funky time of day, in which the light wasn't good at all. I just decided to make it flat and sort of bright. I wanted the door of the church open, as all church doors should be.

It's a Bonjour and Butterfly Kind of Day

I'm prolifically goofy today. I wanted to make some bright colorful drawings to put them on greeting cards. I ended up ordering greeting cards with my daisy from last week, and my yellow flower in crayon and acrylic. I'm just having fun with pastels here, waiting patiently for my new art books to arrive.

Here's my third canvass. At first I didn't like it, but now it's starting to grow on me. I sketched out the flower, and I tried to emulate the colors in my art book. I tried to mix them just like it said, and then I realized, I need to quit reading the book and trust my instincts. I think I have okay instincts about color anyway. Still trying to capture shawdows and and light and all that. It's not as easy as it seems. I think this is okay for a beginner. :)