Daily Timeout for Art #21

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I don’t why I seem to love the simplest forms of art like line drawings. Though when I step back and look the line drawings always seem unfinished to me and I feel the need to add color to them. Today’s offering entitled Penguins on the March is one such drawing. It is a line drawing done in ink and highlighted in watercolor pencil. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating the print.

Daily timeout for Art #20

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One of my favorite paintings I’ve ever painted was something like this one, it was a little girl standing on the beach watching her balloon fly off into the sky. This one, entitled A Boy and His Cat, is similar in it’s simplicity. The drawing is on white paper, outlined in pen and lightly colored.

Why pick one medium?

An art teacher once told me “You must pick one medium and stick with it in order to become good in that medium.” I took her statement to heart and divested a lot of time back in the 90’s creating new pieces in chalk pastels.  While I I love the medium I always wanted to venture out into other areas like pen and ink and acrylic paints.

After a few years life took over and I didn’t create many pieces until the last couple of years when I ventured into the wonderful world of acrylics.  I love the paints but I also have found a love for some other mediums like colored pencils, watercolors and blue pen

In the wisdom of my years of art work, yeah right, I have found while I agree with part of the statement about to become better at anything you must practice,  I also don’t agree with sticking with one medium.  I don’t know if it is my adult ADD but I love to create art in what ever form I am led to use. If I want to make a collage I pick up the pieces and create. I also love cartoons and manga. I guess what it boils down to for me is why pick one medium when you can use whatever is available?

Daily timeout for Art #19

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Well here’s another one, a portrait drawing that is meant to resemble the person I am drawing but with bigger eyes. Although this one did not turn out the way I had hoped I still feel like I am making progress. Yeah, determination combined with inspiration.