Drawing, Photography, cross-stitching and the random randomness that is Amy Smith.
They seem so perfect!
Then there were my "I will be amazed if I get flowers out of these".
Got some bachelor buttons...
and a well chewed on scarlet flax. There was another flower that had survived but it didn't last long enough for me to get a picture. We got a bunch of rain and now are being hit with a heat wave, fun fun.
Picked the first tomato from the garden today, it is just a cherry tomato but seems decent sized for one.
Got a little bit colored and now I am putting this aside for something else. I will come back to it (I hope) but something caught my attention.
The Color Pencil Magazine had a drawing competition every month. I have been watching it for awhile now, waiting to see if anything 'calls out' to me and this months finally has.
-->Here<-- is the subject, I don't care about winning; I just know that if I draw that bird, when I am done, it will feel really good. There is a good chance I won't even enter it in.
I won't be posting progress of it or anything, sounds silly but this has that "Do it privately" feel to it.
Got a background in and some dragonflies, this should be interesting to do :) I trimmed it as all the empty space felt like peer pressure and I didn't want to add anything more. I know mat framing is an option but, ehh.
So what is going on with me and all these blog posts this week?! I had no work this week; this is the third week (not in a row) they have done this to me. Since this is the slow time of year for them, they just make a bunch of people have almost no hours. Next week I work one day for four hours; woo. Trying to find another job but it is outrageous what they are expecting now a days, even for simple entry level jobs.
So I am using this time wisely to work on drawings. Even when I don't feel like it, I make myself sit down and just do it. I am just thankful I don't have artist block right now :)
I can't believe I am almost done with this. Just have the detail stitches left (which I hate) and hopefully this will be the first cross-stitch project that I can say was done within a year. Woohoo!
"First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know, and only then will you know what it is that you see." -Robert Beverly Hale
My brain is fighting me on this one, I know the head is tilted slightly but I keep trying to draw things on the face like they are straight up and down. Also, out of curiosity, I went and looked when the last time I drew anything feline like was; that would be almost nine years ago. I just might take a step back from this one and do some small studies, like on paws and eye to nose alignment.
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. Though I am happy I did it, I was afraid I would give up on it. The new 4H pencil I had gotten was so hard, that I didn't realize it had dug into the paper. Every time I had to try to color into a groove I wanted to give in cause I was just waiting for it to look worse. At least I got the urge to do something rainbow-y out of my system.
Time to move on to the next one! I'm thinking cat..
