Friday, December 08, 2006
ArtPact #3
OK, OK...
I admit: I've been stalling until now.
I've had all the good reasons: It's been a crazy week, I was sick, sleepless, over-stressed and busy.
And yet - a pact is a pact.
I actually started the second painting of Nitzku, and it's now reached that depressing stage of being beyond the start (so I can no longer cling to the convenient excuse of "Oh, it's just the first layer"), but not even close to be finished (and I have no idea how to continue).
If you are a painter yourself, you know this stage very well.
It's when you are sure you've lost every hope of ever painting well again.
That shall pass, but not today.
And yet, since I made a pact, I need to post something.
And, since I have nothing else from this week, I am reverting to the sketches I did yesterday at the Presentation Center paint-out.
While the rest of the group was capturing the wonderful landscape, I didn't even try.
You see, I'm one of them peoples that when I see an incredible landscape, I absorb it through my eyes (and the eye of LumiB), then I take a deep breath, and then I look around for people, so I can paint or sketch them.
That's me.
It's a gift
And a curse.
(and if you have no idea what I am talking about - go watch Monk.
.You'll thank me later.
.Wipe!!).
Anyway - at the Presentation Center, BlaineyC told me that four Master Gardeners of California were working in the little golf course that was turned into a garden, so I cheerfully went there, asked their permission to sketch them, and spent 2 great hours with the group of four hilarious gardeners.I did not produce many sketches (as they were way too fun, plus my favorite sketching pens decided to die on me), but these are the first two sketches I did .
Both sketches done on location, both watercolor and ink on paper.
And some footprints of a stray ant.
# posted by Nava @ 6:27 PM 
Comments:
Maybe it's because I like to garden to, but I think I like your garden sketches more than most of your other sketches.
As a matter of fact, for his 40th birthday, The JohnnyB got a calendar made of sketches of himself doing his favorite things.
Well, kinda.
It was more of a promised calendar, with the pages given on a monthly basis.
Anyway - the very first sketch was of The JohnnyB and his favorite buddy, the carboy.
Not his favorite sketch, though.
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Well, kinda.
It was more of a promised calendar, with the pages given on a monthly basis.
Anyway - the very first sketch was of The JohnnyB and his favorite buddy, the carboy.
Not his favorite sketch, though.
