sketching: dogs

Today I returned to my attempts at sketching though now I'm taking a less intimidating direction following some of the exercises in 52 Drawing Labs for Mixed Media Artists by Carla Sonheim.  Exercise #6 is draw an image repetitively, loosely, keeping hand and wrist soft and loose.  Her example was using a dog, so I imitated her.

The idea was to use a marker (yikes no erasing!) on an index card.  I didn't have any but have skads of postcard paper so that's what I used.  Except for the couple that look more sheep like than dog like, I'm pleased with the results - and it was fun.  I feel successful, which is the point I think.

Green Houses, Google Sketch and a Rascal

After such a positive experience with my last Google Map experiment, I went and did it again!

I wondered around Spain for awhile, but somehow found myself back in France.

This hotel D'Europe is located at 4 Rue de Limas, Avignon France.

This is the Green House painting I worked so "vigorously"

on last night. As you can see I've decided to move in a different direction with the

glass domes. I was sitting in front of the old yellow one(s) thinking about how much I loathed the cheesy yellow when I was suddenly hit by a novel idea.

Green Houses, they should be green shouldn't they?

So full of living green and misty air, why couldn't they?

This photo represents about an hour and a half of quick brushwork. I wanted the colors to

be smoothly blended. None of that dry brushing. this wasn't an easy feat using quick

drying Acrylics, but it was well worth the effort.

Later I'll add the exo-skeleton of black iron, but now I have a satisfying inner

color, and maybe I'll add some plant silhouettes.

I'll send you all off with this somewhat graceful photo of my

sweet puppy, Rascal.

Stay Artsy

~Sarah Bosserman