Well, I started sketching today for Uncle Leon's commissioned drawings and...I TOTALLY SUCK at drawing real-looking horses from scratch. I know how to get the commissioned stuff done - I need tracing paper, transfer/graphite paper, but it wasn't at Hobby Lobby so...I guess I'll work on getting the pictures I want for references and printing them out while I wait for another trip to Hobby Lobby. I'm pretty confident in my paintings, and I've decided on a theme...and if I keep sketching horses, I'll get better.
My goal is to get tracing paper after the car's fixed and trace the four horse models I'm using. Then, I'll transfer them to paper/canvas and THEN I can start filling in the details. I can go ahead and start work on the paintings this week - doing the backgrounds.
My them is "Gaits".
I'm doing four pictures (2 drawings, 2 paintings), one for each gait a horse has - the walk, trot, canter, and gallop. I have pictures for the walk and trot...and I think I found a picture for gallop. Cantering won't be too difficult.
So, goals for this week:
1. Paint the background on the paintings using acrylic paints.
2. Find four pictures for my models and get them printed.
Next week I shall buy the transfer/graphite paper. Then it's on to the drawings.
In other news, we finally have a couch (cream sectional!), and our living room looks like half a living room and half a studio/office. Quite nice, actually.
Now if only I could get my act together and start plotting the scenes for Violet's Monster: Volume I.
You just brought back happy memories of my "how to ride horses" book that I read voraciously in my girly horse phase and never actually got to put into practice. I wonder what happened to that thing.
ReplyDeleteHaha! Awesome. I took riding lessons for a few years and ADORED it. I was the girly girl at that point - ballet, harp/piano, painting and horseback riding lessons. :P At least I wasn't a cheerleader...
ReplyDeleteThanks for bringing my jacket back. :)