My Chair

A drawing of my chair.

My Other Left Hand

Hand study.

Two Images

The top picture is a combination of the contour drawings I did of things in my room. I decided to place them on a piece of paper with words to label them. I wanted to focus on things that were familiar to me. Things that I am surrounded by. I am not sure why I ended up arranging them the way I did. I just put them in the way I thought they needed to be. I was thinking of artists that I studied while I was doing it. Not directly, but as a reference from memory. I thought about how they arranged things, but I wanted to make sure the picture was based on my own ideas. Something that I find difficult and akward. I also realize it is difficult to get myself to do these things I feel are uncomfortable so I tend to avoid them. I hope by understanding this, I will not avoid this and just do it as a fun project that might be a bit challenging.

The second picture is the drawing I did of the "Red Robe" painting I posted earlier. The only reason I posted this one is because I like it much better than the painting. It is looser and more interesting. The painting was boring and over worked.

Stuff

This is a drawing of items around my house. I used ink and watercolor. I am not a watercolor pro and I also think that the paper I used is not that great for it so it looks pretty bad. But anyway... They are quick contour drawings. I put them all on one piece of paper with no real idea of where I was going with it. Just trying to do something. A difficult thing for me is finding out what to draw . It always has been because I don't think I pay enough attention to what is happening around me, I think it would be too boring to draw. But if I look closely enough it could at least have some details to it.

Red Robe

This my version of a drawing done by Jacopo da Pontormo (1494-1557). The picture I took the image from was in black and white so I added my own colors. I just found a picture of the image in color here. It is a lot easier to see than the black and white copy I had and obviously the colors are different than the ones I chose. I was not familiar with the artist before now. This was a challenging painting because I had to keep track of all the folds, shadows and highlights. I did an underpainting on the skirt with tan and dark purple for the shadows. I then went over the whole skirt with white letting some of the underpaints come through. For the robe I started with a standard red and added a blue violet for the shadows and a light pink for the highlights and then I back over the whole thing with the standard red. I like how the backround looks against the figure.