If this little fellow looks familiar, that’s because he originally featured in one of my In the Style of… posts (click here to see it). The photograph is a bit of a favourite and so I thought I’d see how he looked in a different medium. Even though the background didn’t go quite as planned, I’m pretty happy with how the sparrow turned out.
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” John Lubbock
My thanks to KG for making me aware of this quote.
Today’s Shoot it, Sketch it is from a sketchbook I started three years ago. It was meant to be a gift for someone but I misjudged how long it would take to fill the 36-page Moleskine. I got about halfway through the journal before realising that I wasn’t going to finish it in time. And that was that. Momentum lost. Project abandoned.
Maybe it’s time I picked it up again…
We all know that the very best thing about having rules is breaking them (we do know that, don’t we?)… so today’s Shoot it, Sketch it is based on a digital landscape rather than a photograph. ‘Bryce Island’ is an image I made with 3D modelling software way back in 2002. Click here to see my original post about Bryce.
Last year’s snowflakes; this year’s watercolour. Just for fun.
“Here is a truth: often a painting is done just so the artist can get to do a small favorite thing, or idea. Entire paintings are done just to get to put highlights on a glass, or shadows on a lemon or sunbursts in the distance. Whole landscapes are painted just to show a small flower in the foreground, or a water drop about to fall from a rose petal. A moment of inspiration to render an idea, so simple a truth that it cannot be rendered simply, but surrounded by complexity of seeing our world, lest the idea be lost. When done, often the original intention of the painting goes unperceived to the casual viewer, but it is there.” Eight Decades blogging on StoryDoors
Anna Cull ~ Art & Music 