I've begun a more formal work after the study above, hoping to keep the energy and the focus on the hand.
What has been distracting me? My sketchbook. I've been doing a quarantine project (sort of). Each day, the plan is to sketch the view out a different window—an "inside, looking out" thing to document my experience. And I've even been distracted from that! I've interspersed sketches of highlights, like a vase with the first daffodils of the season and this.... the first loaf of homemade bread I've made in years.
Yes, it was delicious; so good that I'm off to make another one today. For ye doubters, I can provide a photo of the actual bread upon request.
Show us the sketches! Love the colors on the hand with the felt tip pen! Both are so delicate but beautifully painted. The bread looks good too, but I’d love to see your other sketches. FYI portrait Artist of the Year 2020 is back on YouTube! I just watched the first episode but to watch the painters in action is very instructive...of course you may be more interested the great British Baking Show these days...
ReplyDeleteI like the sketch with the felt tip pen. It seems to me that hard lines are good things for hands, maybe it is not exactly what they look like, but I think our eyes pick them up better with hard lines, and it is a painting and not a photograph. If you are painting them with soft colors, you have to go out of your way to indicate the individual fingers, knuckles, etc, and that skews the painting. That's what Uncle Ken thinks.
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, yes. We want to see all the distraction drawings too. The quarantine sketchbook will be a great thing to have. The light washes look good with the ink sketch. I'm looking forward to seeing the all watercolor mudra too. It already looks promising. mmmm and bread.
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