Something old, something new and something unusual!
KKat
KKat has asked to show some of her older, completed works this week as she has not had the time to do something new. Remember this Prompt series is to encourage you all to draw something each week but these two works are lovely and should be seen - however, the works would have taken her much longer than the week to complete.
The Tulip was done on Canson Drawing paper 220gsm A3 size with Prismacolor pencils. This is a grainy paper and KKat says it took many layers to fill in the tooth. I would have liked to see a little more depth of colour in the leaves using warmth - reds/oranges/or violets, but a very lovely work.
K
It's been a hectic week for K at the hospital, so a little bit of drawing has helped her relax. Her first work is a delightful concept, a double pun in graphite and colour pencil on Canson drawing paper. Titled 'Double Spring' she says the drawing helped her to unwind!
A clever concept K and nicely drawn. You have built up the hues in the pink blossom, balancing the pinks and reds with darker red and violet shadow and contrast areas. The 'spring' uses just the right touch of green with the graphite and works well. This is a fun little drawing.
K's second piece is a cheeky little pink robin. It is created using Canson paper and colour pencils. He's a big boy who has had a few too many bugs this spring! Mind you, they are fat little balls of fluff. Some good colour work and layering here. And the moss on the branch is terriffic. And does he have a tail to be seen? Is this the reference you used HERE - if so you can just tell the difference between tail and wing with a but of his underside.
I do think your robin needs to go on a bit of a diet K. And the feet are probably too small to support this portly guy. It is still a good drawing but if you were to skinny him down a bit and reduce his humpback he would look more like this:
Monika
Monika has been thinking outside the box as well with this nice rendering of a Meissen Porcelain figurine from 1900 - one of the 4 figures from the Four Seasons series - 'Spring'. These figurines are often coloured but the one at the NGV that Monika used as reference is white. She has used Staedtler Mars graphite pencils 2H, HB, 2B and 4B in her visual diary to create this piece. This style of porcelain figurine is highly stylised and romanticised. Monika has realised the female Spring figure well, paying a lot of attention to proportion and shading to express form and the flowing fabrics. The smaller boy, Pan figure is a little less in proportion with some difficulty understanding the perspective foreshortening of the arm and leading leg. Here too Monika has used tone to show the form. Monika has considered carefully her technique to avoid outline using tone to create shape. The plinth (cake) could be worked on further in the same manner. A good work. It is great to see such an imaginative interpretation of the theme this week!
Don
Like Monika, Don decided he didn't want to draw flowers and drew what Spring means to him. Gardening!
Drawn in his Windsor Newtion visual diary 130gsm using graphite pencils 2H to 4D Don has drawn his selection of garden tools. Don has also been developing his technique of working with kneadable and plastic erasers along with a paper stump. I really enjoy the rendering in this work. Shapes and forms are well expressed. Highlights, especially in the middle weeding tool, work well to show curves of the metal parts of the tools. In fact the different textures between the wooden handles and metal portions is very nicely observed.
Another great drawing showing an imaginative take on Spring. And Don, can you please come do my weeding?
JD
JD has decided to work on a larger, A3 piece this week, so her submission is a WIP. I have two halves to show you - she sent me both halves but I don't have the facility here to stitch them together. I am also not quite sure which way around they fit. I have asked her to send me phone shot so watch this space...*
*BELOW*
Using Faber Castel Polychromos, Staedtler graphite and a tortillion on Eraldo di Paolo HP 300gsm JD has begun and ambitious work of Hellebores. Although technically this is a winter flower, they are one of her favourites and as I always say draw what you love....!
As you can see from this half of the WIP she is doing a pretty darn good job. Building up the layers of colours and blending well. Make sure you add some of that purple into the shadows of the green leaves... and some of the green into the purples, JD. This is going to be a very fine work and I hope we get to see the finished result.
Whew! That's it for me today. I am off to enjoy some spring sunshine rather than sitting inside tapping on this computer! Please note that next week will be the final in this series of Prompts for Term 3. The final prompt will be posted late tonight (Sunday).
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