On Sunday and Thursday nights, I stay with my mother, who is 85 and needs someone with her all the time. She needs help with virtually everything. So my oldest sister and I take turns so my sister who lives with Mother can have a full night's sleep at least every 2 or 3 nights. On those nights, I don't get much sleep. On Friday, the sister who lives with Mother works for a few hours and I stay. That was yesterday, and for a while in the morning, I also had my grandchildren. Now taking care of your 85 year old mother who needs help with everything and tends to be bothered by noise and quick movements around her and the 3 1/2 and 1 1/2 year olds who live to squeal, laugh and cry and run, jump and wiggle... well, you get the picture! I'm so blessed to be able to take care of my mother and my grandchildren, but I didn't have much hope of creating any artwork. However, in the afternoon when it was a little quieter, just the tv with Food Network on, I started sketching a basket that sat across the room. Yes, I started but this is as far as I got:
However, lest you think I'm completely hopeless as an artist, I will share a drawing from a few days before this challenge began.
Oh, but wait! this drawing wasn't finished either, because these peppers were in a white dish that I felt intimidated trying to draw (meaning: I didn't know how to describe that all-white dish with its wavy lines and curves with pencil.) That's the reason the shadows are so strange.
So maybe I'll give you something else to convince you (myself) that I'm not hopeless.
This is done in pastels, about a year ago in my drawing 2 class. It is about 20"X25" and probably one of my favorites. I pull it up when I get discouraged and wonder if there is any art in me at all.
Because I want to be honest with you and with myself, I've promised to share half-finished attempts and even failures, and now I'm posting a day late. That's because last night I got to go out for catfish at a nearby restaurant with my hubby, my daughter and 2 grandbabies and I thoroughly enjoyed myself, watching the kids get to be themselves and sharing some time and good food with some of my family. And soon after, I was in bed after a long, hard, tiring but good day and blogging was the last thing on my mind.
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These are great! :) good job with the shadings!
ReplyDeleteYou are much too hard on yourself. As a child of God, relax and let yourself just be who you are, where you are right now and don't jump to what you'd like to be. Give yourself days to be better than on others and to do more or less also. It's the act of creating that counts foremost. Creating because the Great Creator is in you and expressing a tiny slice of Himself through you. Remember, He said after he created everything that is was GOOD, not perfect! I think your drawing are pretty darn good; they are better than I can do right now which is fine too.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much! I know that I could never outdo God's handiwork and I never want it to seem like that's my intention. But I'd like to reflect the beauty He created so others can see Him in me! That's my intention with my drawing, as well as every other area of my life. To Him be the glory!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the encouragement!
Lovely. You have a great eye.
ReplyDeleteYour shading and highlights reflect very lemony textures - skin and pulp.
ReplyDeleteA music teacher once told my daughter "Frustration is a GOOD sign - Frustration means that all your work of learning ... in your fingers, your eyes, and your brain ... all of that work is just about to come together and reward you. I think of her advice often. :)