This morning, not in any mood for drawing big allergy year, eyes swollen and blurry and waiting for new glasses, whine, whine, I still thought I could do a little drawing for the #drawingaugust event on Twitter. So here's the sedum by the fence, small, pilot pen fine on mulberry paper, continuing the theme of the possible artist's book that might come out of this.
Tomorrow is Creative Collective Plein Air at Turning Basin Park on Alexander Road in Princeton, right opposite the canoe rental place. Any local reader is invited to come. You just show up with materials ready to do a bit of art in congenial company. No membership needed, since you're a member just by coming along.
We spread out around the place after we meet, since everyone has different notions of what's good to paint and draw. But we all agree there's no hierarchy, and it's a judgment-free zone! Just show up at 10 a.m. and look for us near the pavilion.
Another Vilene stitching, taken from my line drawing, is done and pinned here in a temporary place while I think about how these pieces will work best, and whether to make more. They may eventually be higher on the artwork, with supporting motifs below them. Not sure yet. Also, I want to keep them only lightly tacked on, so as to get the advantage of the shadows they cast. not applique them tightly all around. I like the notion that they might be in a wind, or might fly off any time.
And drawing for #drawingaugust continues apace. Today it's about food and peeling farm tomatoes, so they got their few minutes of fame here, while waiting for the water to boil for them.
The drawings I've been posting on Twitter are getting some very kind responses. And I'm seeing a lot of good art being produced daily up there.
Thanks to Quinn Piper, I joined up with the #drawingaugust project on Twitter, and I'm doing a drawing a day to post there. But I thought you'd enjoy it, too. I believe you can see the whole entry on Twitter even without membership, many wonderful works from artists from all over the world, drawing daily.
Here's what happened when I decided to draw and Marigold decided I shouldn't. She inserted herself under my arm to sleep, dislodging my clipboard which stands in for a drawing board for small works.
Then, outside after rain, the daisies posed obligingly for me
The drawings are all done in fine Pilot pen, black, on pure white smooth paper, good for drawing. I'll also use a watercolor paper, and do some ink and wash pieces soon.
It was an exciting time trying to get Twitter to work for me, but thanks to patient tutoring from QP, I got there. We found that several of the unsurmountable puzzles I encountered were the result of my doing this on a tablet, gah.
I can only upload pix from my tablet, because that's where they originate, too cumbersome to do it from camera, email, and other pathways. But I can only see all the functions of Twitter from my laptop. However, the Twitter membership I organized on the tablet works fine on the laptop. All this emboldened me to put the Twitter button on this blog for your viewing pleasure. That was another learning curve, but nemmind..
Now that I know all this, major learning in the last day for me, I'm fine with it. Evidently the tablet only has a kind of Cliff Notes version of it, okay for casual glancing, and reading updates, but not so much for seeing a panorama of entries.
