#DrawingAugust on Twitter is over for another year.
I've drawn every day but have posted occasionally. I've been online only briefly in recent weeks, and some days not at all. With the hay situation, ordinary life requires many more hours of physical activity than my usual routine. And, happily, it's been mostly Not! Raining! for the past several days, which means spending as much time as possible working outdoors.
Towards the end of August I sketched a whelk shell using watercolor pencil.
Then another.
And another.
In watercolor pencil or in soluble graphite pencil.
Using two or three colors or tones for each sketch.
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This one was last night:
I just wanted to share them with you.
Wishing you a happy Labor Day if you are in the US, and a very happy Monday if you are anywhere else in the world.
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I love your shells. And the fact that you're faithfully keeping up with your Markings. They're a significant feature.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much, Liz! I can hardly believe it's already my 6th year of Daily Markmaking, but I suppose it does explain the teetering piles of filled sketchbooks.
DeleteYour shells look great - each one so different from the others.
ReplyDeleteBefore I started looking at pictures of whelks, I thought they all had one simple shape, and all the other shells were from different critters. Live and learn!
DeleteI really like these. I'm so impressed - I could never figure out the shading like you have.
ReplyDeleteThanks! But you may be giving me too much credit with the "figuring out" part - watercolor is sort of magical in the way it does things :)
DeleteShells are a wonderful subject to draw. They have a travel the workd charm.
ReplyDeleteThey are certainly addictive!
DeleteGlad to know you're squeezing in time for daily mark-making. And that (I scarcely dare whisper) you've had some not.rainy.days. The whelks are intricate. I like your reply to Magpie's Mumblings. Ah, the art of looking closely.
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Thanks, Chris! I was thinking last night that I'd better start doing the daily markmaking earlier in the day. I've been so sleepy in the evenings lately, I've had to sort of drag myself back to consciousness to grab my sketchbook and a pencil before it's too late.
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