After working on the last coloured pencil piece I'm taking a break (I think??) from CP for a few days, however the piece I sketched out yesterday I was planning to do with inktense, I'm now contemplating doing in CP. I was also planning a moon & feather piece, but I love the moon I created so much, I'm not sure I want to cover it It's airbrushed with Golden Paints High Flow acrylics, they work fantastic in the airbrush! I'll have to think about this one for a few days, I was going to have a huge feather in front of the entire moon, but I'm loving this moon on its' own. 18"X24"
Hopefully, by the time this has posted I will have decided, inktense or coloured pencil on the 'Spring' piece, and feather or not on the moon?? that's the fun of creating, starting with an idea, and seeing how it evolves! Last piece is finished, and I always feel such a 'let down'...you spend so much time working on your last piece, thinking about what you want to create, the effect you want to create, how to carry that out, you stare at that blank piece of paper, or blank canvas...and you put down that first line and the journey begins!
Then depending on the medium you are using, it could take a few hours, a few days, a few weeks to capture that 'vision'. I don't know about other artists, but when I'm working on a piece, I'm always thinking, should I do this? what if I try this? or I should have, could have...next time...it's all a learning process, every time! I basically devote myself to it, and then, when it's finally completed, and I'm super stoked with it..and I realize it's done..the balloon has burst...now what? From the heights of extreme delight & joy to ...nothingness! Well, that's how I feel every time I finish a project; anyway, time to start some new work. Just like Christmas, or a birthday, or I just wanted to try this stuff out!! this came in the mail yesterday!
I am using my coloured pencils a LOT lately, and despite leaving areas of white for highlights, or burnishing with white, the white just doesn't stand out enough for the highlights! This is the latest 'raved' about product, saw it in a magazine, online in some art videos, so thought I'd give it a try! and PERFECT timing, it arrived just as I'm wrapping up my motorcycle piece, and I need to add some 'sparkle' to my chrome! I should be airbrushing the background today (yeah, I usually do the background first, but was going to use colour pencil on this piece for the background, but decided no...want the out of focus look..the impact should be the bike & the reflections!) of course this had to be shipped from Edmonton...pricey...as usual, next to impossible to get art supplies in Canada at a reasonable price...when you add on shipping, this had better be good! I did a painting/drawing a few months ago, of a friends' parakeet...it was done in Derwent Inktense, it turned out really, really well...she did not know I was doing it, or rather 'how' I was choosing to depict Jimmy, so I was thrilled when she said she loved it! It was sent overseas, in the hopes she would get it before Christmas, long story short..he arrived, and was returned, as he was not picked up 'in time'...and came back to me in Canada, before he was again sent overseas to Germany! that's a lot of flying for a parakeet! He finally arrived last week, safe, intact, and she said it was 'beautiful'...that made my day, my week! it's the reason I love to do what I do! I get very discouraged. I feel sometimes like giving up...why do I bother? no one cares what I do...I barely make money at it...but those simple words, and the picture she sent holding it, the look of pure 'joy' on her face...THAT makes it worthwhile! (This is Jimmy 11"X14"/Derwent Inktense)
I hate winter!! not new for anyone that knows me...I used to enjoy winter, I worked at a ski resort for over a decade, I was a professional ski patroller & ski instructor, but I can't stand it now...too cold, too much snow...and too expensive for skiing..so I just hibernate, and get depressed day, after day I find it a struggle. I use try to use my 'art' to battle through it...somedays it works, somedays not so much! I just find myself questioning everything...why do I live in this country? why was I born here? why am I still here?? why am I wasting my time drawing? painting? no one cares...self-pity?? or reality? I just can't get into this branding, and marketing myself it's not who I am...I'm trying hard, but to what avail?? I'm not the 'fake' type...as Popeye said..." I am what I am, and that's all that I am". Just venting...continuing to work on the CP piece...keeps my brain occupied, so I can't think about how freakin cold it is...-27C windchill in March?? peace out... #Imisssummer
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