This was something I did out of the Charles Reid book I have.  I don’t know why it never made it to the blog, but here it is.

Cadmium Red, Windsor Yellow, and Cobalt blue may look like a bright palette, however, it turns into a dead palette.

Exhibit A.

I believe I will be changing this color palette to French Ultra Marine, New Gambouge, Permanent Alizarin Crimson.

Exhibit B

Last night I dragged Joe to see Secretariat. (Don’t judge, sometimes a feel good movie is just what I want.) I went to get Joe a slushee (he did agree to see the movie with me after all) and I was stopped in my tracks by the movie poster directly outside of our theater. (Just skip the intro, I couldn’t click and drag with that one.)

As I was seaching for that image, I came across this lovely as well.

I love me some watercolor.

Week 3:

Gallery

Day By Day

Day 10: I realized that these stick figures are actually really helping me see the angles of the body in a different way. I must concentrate on the figure as a whole and think more about the abstract shapes that it makes as one.  Who knew you could learn from from stick figures?!

Day 11: Actually day 11 only consisted of the two figures on the left and the head oval. I became very frustrated after the bottom figure and decided to call it a day before I went to work.

Day 12: I came up with a happy medium between the stick figures and the more detailed drawings. I was planning on just doing a few more gestures today (Saturday, Day 14) and calling it a week, but last night I had the over-whelming urge to draw some gestures so I did.

Day 13: Technically these were done on day 14, but I am grouping them sort of, by 10s and just calling those days. Again I figured I would just sit down and do 10 for today and that’s it. I would confess my sins of playing Ninja Warrior on Facebook for an entire day. (Well technically I ended up sleeping 12 hours until 2 o’clock in the afternoon and only stayed up until about midnight, so not really an entire day and I blame my little brother. It’s so his fault.)  However…..

Day 14:  I ended up modifying the stick figures so that I would hopefully have something that could be done quickly as well as help me get the proportions a bit more accurate. I believe I did 15 of these as well as flip back to Day 11 and fill in the page for a total of 50 gestures. By a nose on this one…

I will also say that Ninja Warrior was not my only pit fall.

The last two weeks have been a bit crazy. However, from the craziness came good. I was able to spend some fantastic time with my best friends and I think we all needed it no matter it came about by the tragic loss of another friend. Sometimes it takes a tragedy to make you drop everything that “needs” to be done in order to focus on your real priorities, such as loved ones.  Danielle will be missed greatly by her friends and family, luckily, for us she made the world a better place while she was with us and her memory will live on for a very long time.