I have not been doing a lot of drawing for the last little bit...
So here's a thing...
Amanda looking at some social media site and drinking some tea the other evening.
This was done in a little sketchbook I started in 2021 that I have not finished. It is all sketches of Amanda. Maybe this year...?
I did another sketch on Friday as well... but I was even less happy with how that one turned out... Maybe the next one. The plan is to get out and ride or walk to places and do more drawing.
Having cleaned my pens, yesterday, I decided it was time to start DRAWING!
(well... technically, I decided it was time to start drawing again BEFORE I cleaned the pens... that is WHY I cleaned the pens!)
It being Thursday, I thought I would start with the Thursday Portrait Challenge by Studio Tea Break on Bluesky. I had participated in these when I used to have a Twitter account. Studio Tea Break eventually moved to Bluesky, so...
This week's Challenge was ‘The Princess’ (Painting of a Shawi Berber woman from Algeria), painted by Frederick Arthur Bridgman sometime between 1870 to 1878.
This is my take on it. It's a start...
I like the Thursday Portrait Challenge. It's like the time-honoured tradition of Painting from the Masters - copying the works of those who've gone before to learn their techniques through the process of DOING them. I guess this isn't exactly the same thing, because I very definitely did not do this with oil paints!
Here is the original...
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Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Princess (1870) - borrowed from Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Arthur_Bridgman_-_The_Princess_%281870%29.jpg
Studio Tea Break can be found here:
https://bsky.app/profile/studioteabreak.bsky.social
My stuff on Bluesky can be found here:
https://bsky.app/profile/timinsaskatoon.bsky.social
I have previously posted on this blog a number of the Portrait Challenges I did through 2022 here:
Virtual Studio - Thursday Portrait Challenges
It has been almost a year since I posted anything here...
It has been almost as long since I even drew ANYTHING!?
I cleaned my pens today.
Lets see where that takes us...
I should clarify, this has nothing to do with the previous post. Just a regular waiting room for a regular appointment!
Of all the places I have to wait for appointments of people, this is my favourite. It is usually very quite and comfortable... (Today the radio was on and I had to listen to commercial radio...)
Royal University Hospital ER
My mom is in hospital. She hasn't had a great year. It's a long story...
Dinovember Day Nine
Cory the Cross-Country Corythosaurus (on a Concorde!)
27cm x 35cm (~11"x14")
Acrylic Ink on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper
Okay this one it up so early because I actually did it the other day... I thought I might try and get it to my pal Cory for his birthday, which is today... alas... I did not mail it off, so... he will have to wait until Xmas!
Dinovember Day Eight
Mike the Messenger Maiasaura
35cm x 27 cm (~14" x 11")
Acrylic Ink on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper
Tried to go a little faster and looser on this one. I kind of like it...
