Last night I was restless. I think I was tired and my knees were hurting and I wanted to do something but not too much of something. All my sewing was upstairs and I just couldn't be bothered to climb the stairs so....
I decided to draw. Now, you must understand that while my father was a very good artist and made a living at it, I didn't inherit the gene. I knew this so I never even tried. However, as many people do as they age, I have a new appreciation of art and enjoy a number of aspects of it.
Obviously fine art, painting, sculpture, etc is all art but I look at quilting, cross stitch, and paper crafts (i.e. cardmaking) as art as well. I love the complexity of mixed media projects and have worked on a couple of those as well. I was right on board with the new adult color book craze and love it -- I am going to indulge myself in a full set of prismacolor pencils as soon as I can find a full set someplace!
But, what I would really like to do is be able to draw. I used to marvel at my father's ability to just sit and draw effortlessly. The detail in his work was amazing (he was a cartoonist) and I would just shake my head not really knowing how he did it and being a bit resentful that I couldn't.
I will never be an artist but I have discovered that is ok. Art is in the eye of the beholder and while I will never have the talent that my father did I can still play with it.
So, last night that is what I did. I opened the internet and searched for sketching ideas and found a couple of things and gave it a go. I was surprised to find that it was actually relaxing and not stressful because, after all, art is in the eye of the beholder, right?
So, here you go--Art -- MY way!
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this is a vase in my kitchen -- this was done a few weeks ago |
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again with the vase |
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just the posy |
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a duck I copied off the internet |
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A penguin I copied off the internet |
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a fantasy flower and a magical bee from my imagination |
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more of the same |
So, that is what I did last night -- huge waste of time but it was very relaxing -- I might do it again tonight!
2 comments:
Love the flower and the bee!
Thank you! I had to google what a bee looks like -- I am so bad!
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