It’s been a busy week and I am running late on getting this
posted.
We have had an issue with getting the title on a travel
trailer. We are finally resolving the problems and just sent off a down payment
on a different trailer (from a private party). The RV dealer will be refunding
our money this week. We are very happy to be getting everything resolved.
In the meantime I have been moving our stuff out of the RV
we got from the dealer. I haven’t had much time to think about writing this
week.
So I will share a post from 2013 that I had deleted at one point.
I am a proponent of sketching and drawing. I spend a lot of
time doing preliminary sketches for everything from my paintings to my dolls,
to my jewelry. I like to get the ideas on paper at the time they are playing in
my mind. Then later I can go back through the sketch books and find my
inspiration for new projects.
This week I am going to show some of my sketches and the
resulting works that came out of them. I have spent most of the past two weeks
doing lots of sketches for the project I want to put on Kickstarter.
First up you see above the 30”x30” painting called
Starwoman, the Return. Here is the original sketch (approx 5”x6”) done back in
January of 2009. The sketch is done in pencil and pastel pencil. The resulting
painting, done in February, was in a group show in March 2009.
Next is a page of landscape sketches from the fall of 2012.
I was doing a lot of oil paintings in miniature and so did several pages of
small sketches to use as reference. You can actually see several of these in a
previous post from August 2012.
Here is just one of the small oil paintings done from some
of my sketches.
You don’t have to go out and buy an artist’s sketchbook from
the art store. The paper from your printer is fine. That’s what I used for my
bookmark sketches. I cut out a template from cardboard and drew around it in
pen to give me the right size. Then I just did the sketches in the rectangle in
pencil.
Sketching helps you develop ideas. It gets the ideas out of
your head and on paper where you can see whether they will really work.
Sketches are not meant to be beautiful, perfect, finished art. They can be
simple doodles that don’t have to be finished. And you don’t have to be a great
artist to do sketches. It’s just about developing the idea.
Many times I sit and sketch while watching television.
Partly because I have ideas I want to get down on paper. But partly because
things I see will give me more ideas. I have a stack of sketchbooks from the
past few years and two binders full of original sketches and photos of my
artwork from clear back to the 1980’s. When I need inspiration I go back
through them (sometimes every week). I forget what I might have drawn and am
surprised to find that I can use those ideas for new project.
Many of the ideas for my new bookmarks came from older
sketches.
Don’t be afraid of drawing and sketching. The more you do,
the better you will be at it. You will be surprised when you go back months
later to find that you can still see the idea in your sketch and how to use it
now.
Sketching is not really a messy project. Except when my
hands get black from all the pencil smudges. Oh and the pencil trimmings on the
floor and my desk because I sharpen the pencils a lot. But that is all part of
the fun.
So grab some copy paper and a pencil and make some marks.
Use a three hole punch and put them into a binder. There you have a sketch
book.
Til next week. J
Terri
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