EDM #4 Draw your mug or cup.
I like these clear mugs so thought I would draw all three.
Not sure how to rotate the picture. :-}

#7 EDM Draw a bottle, jar or tin from the kitchen.

EDM #6 Draw your favorite well loved object or childhood toy.

This could be shaded more needs to look more round etc.

sketching bed

Okay, posting this picture is requiring a little bravery- I don't like it and it's not at all professional or drawn well, but.....as I keep yelling at my inner critic, the point is to keep moving forward and trying more and more difficult subjects.  If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, right?!

Jim got me started on this Everyday Matters list and it's definitely been a challenge for me!  The perspective is definitely off and it's a platform bed with the platform extended too far (you can see the line where I should have stopped).  I would very much welcome any suggestions/comments/critiques about how to address my perspective issues.....

Think I'm going to try a different medium tomorrow :)

SMASH!

Figure Drawing at the 509Artspace! We invited 'Smash' from a roller derby team to come model for us. She was very brave and hard working in the first hour of poses but closed out with something a bit more easy and contemplative...

Self Portrait #5

Blew off yesterday (lots of good drawing at the 509Artspace!)

BB

I couldn't handle the black paint on BB (too melodramatic) so added some light dispursion paint that was given to me by Beth Parker and I still don't like it. We might try spraying another coat on. Changed his coat to green/crimson dark grey. I like that better. This might become the most time expensive painting in a while. It seems odd for someone who is interested in color to use the non-color black but I have so much of it. Maybe I paint my boots.

"EDM #8: Draw Your Watch"

I drew my watch, eventhough I don't wear a watch anymore.  I haven't worn a watch since I retired in 1999.  And this sucker still runs.  Amazing, "takes a licking and keeps on ticking."

Book Art Project, complete

My Kuan Yin Book is done. She is 60" long and 10" wide, and made of paper and matt board. Colored with colored pencil and china marker. I've shown here here long and with a close up of the top and then the bottom. At this point I have decided not to fold her, and just am considering her a wall hanging variety of book. She will be part of the upcoming Book Artist's show in March at the Allied Arts Gallery.

Curly Top & My Art In a Gallery!!

Today I went back to the Dallas Texas Museum of Art.

I saw Monets, Manets, Van Goghs, Renoirs, Matises, Edward Burn-Jones paintings, Henry Margarets, Picasos, and so much more! I'm so thankful that I now live in a city with such treasures.

After I finally collapsed in front of my fireside after a day of museum walking, I sketched this girl. I used a regular #2 pencil.

Today was also a big day aside from the museum.

I brought my huge 3'x3' painting of a girl (link to her Here) to a winery called Times Ten Cellars in Dallas to see If they were interested in showcasing it for sale. Well, to be perfectly honest, they loved it!

It's now hanging inside, up for sale!

Drop by if you're in the area :)

Stay Artsy & DFTBA

Sarah Bosserman



"Smash" Saturday

Well today, Saturday the 7th, I spent time at the Art Space, we had a drawing session and today's model was "Smash" from the Tri-Cities Roller Derby The Atomic Girls. I think everyone had a good time and did some great stuff, I as usual just played around with acrylic paint. Cool time

Blue Square Friday

Well worked on the Blue Square on Friday the 6th. Slowly but Slowly. I enhanced the sky quite a bit and spackled the stars in the outside corners with a toothbrush.

EDM a purse, wallet #3

EDM a Lamp #2

EDM Drawing #1 a shoe Trying to keep these up. behind a little but striving to catch up!

JAN :-)

Oodles of Doodles

Do fancy arrows, call-outs, star-figures and other fancy notations count as art while captiv(ated) at four days of 'Green Dot' violence prevention training? I hope to get back to the 'real' art tomorrow, but I'm wiped and am giving myself credit for doodles. Please don't vote me off the island! ;-)

Sketch

Joining you on the sketch verve today, I've sketched a quick image from an old photo. It's much more difficult to sketch from photos than from life ... but since I missed today's session for figure drawing at the 509Art Space, this will suffice. (It's just a quickie, and worked the face over a bit in Photoshop using brush and eraser tools after discovering I hadn't accounted for the glow on the shadow side of the face).

"EDM #7: Draw a Jar, Bottle, or Tin From the Kitchen"

Now, what, I ask you, could be more jar, bottle, or tinny than three glass containers from the kitchen, well, two  anyway, filled with wine corks, lentils, and marbles? 

So far, I like this sketch best of this series.  There's just something about that brandy snifter with the wine corks. 

I was going to put a quote in here from Danny Gregory, author of among many books, "Everyday Matters," but after pillaging the entire house this morning - I can't find it.

So let's just say this:  Doing a bit of sketching on a regular basis is as good for you as eating your curds and whey, maybe better. 

Come over to the 509 Artspace this morning for a Figure Drawing Session with us.  The model, "Smash," a local roller-derby queen will be wearing her costume!!

sketching: trees

Now here's a topic I'm a little more comfortable with - trees.  I jumped ahead on the Everyday Matters list to #15: trees because a couple of other challenges I participate in had that for their prompts this week.  Plus, I feel like I can kinda draw trees and I was ready for a more successful sketching effort! :)

The blob on the bottom is an attempt at bark but couldn't really get it to show any dimension.....will have to try again.

Last year I painted a few trees with watercolor:

I also played with new techniques of showing leaves (much harder than branches!) and the last one was a new fan brush and trying a silhouette look - painted this one 4 or 5 times with varying results of the shadows and sunset/sunrise sky.  Trees are fun!

Outside my comfort zone

Really most of my art making these days is outside my comfort zone. Mostly I'm a fiber artist, spinning, dyeing, weaving, and knitting. Lately I've been compelled to branch out. To that end I did a bit of mixed media journaling with "mixed" success.

EDM NOT: Just a sketch.

Took my son to the dentist yesterday and while waiting for him sketched the intersection of Edison and Clearwater in Kennewick from behind these sculpted seals.  They were busy sunning themselves in the early morning sun, waiting for a fish to drive by.   

Pearl in the Rough

We're in full Christmas mode here.  Windows steamy with three huge pots of Sarrama (stuffed cabbage rolls). .

I made a sterling silver ring this morning.  I don't have material heavy enough for the shank so ran a silver spoon through the rolling mill.  Used a piece of scrap silver for the base, attached a pearl.  The picture came out crap but will post for my "bonifieds"

China Trip

The plan was to work all day on the show I have scheduled at 'You and I Framing' in Kennewick in March. I really, really struggled getting past some work issues and wrapping my head around these temples. I want to portray these huge, angular structures in a soft, beautiful and organic way but they are just too full of straight lines and angles. The experience is taking me way past the photo and trying to simply portray the structure in a more empathetic way. People are easier (there really is a temple there)...

Self Portrait - I don't know - 4?

I did 4 yesterday and they are all so ugly, I would be stupid to post them here. I did like the style on one however. This one is really too young looking but really - can you be too young looking?