I am at it again . . . more irises . . .
Progress . . .
Not sure what background color to put behind the red iris . . .
Yellow, apparently. To go with the one I did before:
One more to go!
Today's WIP.
And now I have to stop because my hands are so tired they have gone shaky and also this post is so long it is turning into “do you love the color of the iris”. But I learned a lot today!
Wanted to learn to make something like a Motawi tile, in a California Craftsman style. Getting there …
Appreciation to Pedro Lemos for the art lessons, and to Internet Archives for putting his wonderful books online for free!
1. Grow Blenheim Royal bearded iris (bought from Schreiner’s or Nola’s Iris garden)
2. Take photo
3. Make cruddy sketch w Sharpie on brown bag (too awful to photo) aand block in color w acrylic paint
4. Obsess for a week on repairing the anatomical disasters of the sketch
Feel reasonably pleased. Photo, crop and post. Let go and move on.
HIS NAME IS HEBERT. HEBERT GLORY. AND ALL HE WANT IS A DONUT. I LOVE HIM.
Herbert looks happier now.
(Sketch by housemate, both times. I only paint.)
It’s 100F outside. Good day to stay in and paint. My housemate did the sketch for this Yoshi.
ALTHe has been teaching me to play Smash Bros.
ALTI like Yoshi for positive representation of a large nosed character. Yoshi is not cute despite his nose. He is cute BECAUSE he has a large nose.
ALTLike me.
Also, i signed it like this:
ALT
Flutter jumping or Snoopy dancing?
Permanent marker outline on paper bag
Put in shadows
Start marking highlights
Make wrong orange, make whole thing the color of a Brandywine tomato.
Fret. Eat lunch and brood.
Change from primary yellow to cadmium. Redo.
Finish highlights and shadows, background.
Crop
Today i painted
Felt good!
Sentret
