Joy Murray
I got a two legged carrot and that started the whole thing:
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| Just an innocent if odd carrot and I had to start playing with my food |
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| mostly normal studies of the vegetable gave way to the carrot hero |
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| Wearing the distinguished purple carrot, our hero tells his tale with pride |
I wanted to revise the hero and the story a bit, but my husband thought I’d played with my food quite enough. I think Old Two Legs will be dinner tomorrow.
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After spending last month drawing a doodle a day, I decided to keep up the momentum and use my daily drawing time to work on figures, faces and characters. I want to do cartoony characters, as well as more detailed drawings. I swing from wanting to do highly realistic renderings to wanting to make quick energetic characters. Then some days, who walks on to the page but a fish in boots.Â
I usually draw every day anyway. This is a way to focus and work on my problem areas. I resisted joining a challenge because I want to be flexible and force my imagination to come up with a daily theme. I’m not quite coming up with a daily theme, but so far, I’m bumbling along with the focused daily draw.
For the last doodle of May, I did this self portrait character:
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| Ink and colored pencil |
The second day I drew from a photograph of a model in book.Â
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| Pencil and colored pencil |
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| Blue fine line sharpie |
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| A girl in my neighborhood — pencil and colored pencil |
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| Freckles are hard to make look like freckles aren’t they? Sepia Micron |
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| And today, a quick gesture at a community meeting in ball point pen |
Memorial Day
by Joy Murray
I got obsessed with a cluster of maple seeds and drew them in colored pencil over the past few days. I’ve since learned that a group of such seeds is called a “panicle.” My panicle was not of the double winged helicopters, but single ones attached by a delicate stem to the limb. The whole thing fell out of the tree and I found it on a walk and brought it home. I determined to do it in all colored pencil for the detail, but then got dismayed trying to do a dark background. After 3 layers it still looked anemic, so I inked the background with a Pigma Micron Brush marker. You can still see some of the colored pencil lines and tints of red through the ink, and there are a few little blotchy places where the ink pooled, but over all I’m pleased with my panicle. Never knew there were so many colors in a maple seed pod till I looked very closely — purples and reds and yellows and ochers, oh my….
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| Maple Whirligigs, colored pencil and ink pen |
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