Learning to draw

I'm taking a weekly class in drawing which I'm enjoying a lot. We've been drawing a pair of work boots. The first week I had a fairly good angle. Later I added watercolor. The second week my angle was more difficult. I couldn't get my left brain to let go so I could draw what I was seeing. I couldn't believe the boot in the back could be so short!

SOLD: My daughter was here to select a WC of mine and that the workboots above is the one she took. That surprised me. I thought she'd want a Boulder landscape.

Last week of classes

This first one I did this week. Then the next one I posted around the end of the year. Then there's the photo. I took it in Grinnell in June of 2013 near the college campus. 100_1721.jpg C:\Users\KDN\Pictures\Art\kdn photos\buildings\Grinnell homes 2013

May 7 - bay window

 

 

Did this one yesterday. This could be final, or I may take it to Friday's class. On Friday's I have Jan Gustafson's class "Bring what you're working on." I need to start another one to take also.



Jim Pedersen's class Monday

In Jim's class Monday we did exercises with these results:

In the first we did full page colors and with window viewer found these 4 smaller abstracts. The second (the moon) is from lifting out paint to make corrections.

I had a hard time with the foreground in this one. I tried again without much success. On the other hand this is the best I've ever done water. Otherwise I can't decide if I like this one or not. I decided there's nothing to balance the strong diagonal right. So the rocks I added to the foregrounnd are an attempt to do that.

One of my watercolors was featured at the Shelter House Gala silent auction, my bowl of lemons:

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The buckets are from a photo I took at Long's Gardens in Boulder. The Taize Village is from a photo Bob Sessions took while there.