Yesterday I spent some time experimenting with a drawing from one of my school projects. I took this drawing (the original hand drawing I did in the fall of 2005)
I tried doing the same drawing (front elevation of the row house project) in sumi ink instead of a line drawing. After doing four iterations, I ended up with this:
I had so much fun playing around and trying different techniques, brushes etc. I'm sure I could do fifteen more iterations, and still have room to improve. But for now, I enjoyed the process, and I'm happy with the result.
I'm still planning to do a photo expedition tonight, and publish it tomorrow sometime, so come on back. I'm not sure where I'll head with the camera, so we'll see.
2 comments:
Carrie,
I really like this project. I think that the sumi ink drawing came out beautifully and would be interested in the other incarnations. I almost wonder if you couldn't fame them all up and use them almost as a mural on a big red wall. That could be cool.
P.S. in my 7th month of pregnancy I'm desperately jealous of your bursts of creativity. I can't even manage to get the babybook opened. *sighs* So keep producing! I'm living vicariously through you.
Meredith!
It's so wonderful to come on and see your comment here. I'm so disappointed that I'm missing your baby shower this weekend!
Thanks about the painting. I really did have so much fun doing this. I should remind myself of that during my usual bouts of procrastination (like my weekly photo expedition which is woefully behind right now...)
Don't worry -- the baby will still come and be beautiful and happy and very (very, very) well loved, even if you don't accomplish everything on your to-do list (which I'm sure is fantastically ambitious).
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