Author: Cheryl

Spirit of the Wind

Favourite Colour

Cheryl
I’ve been thinking about the concept of favourite colour. Certainly there have been periods when I reach for the same tube frequently. Blue was a favourite when I was first painting. Now a days it’s more about certain colour combinations rather than individual colours. Several paintings with a blue/yellow ochre combo happened in the last year. I’m excited to be concentrating on combinations, and am about to start a painting based on phthalo blue and orange mixes. That yellow ochre will likely be in there too. What about you? Any favourite combos these days? No fries with mine. 

More About Gestures

Cheryl
Gesture drawing as a warm up exercise can get boring. Here are a few tips to help keep it interesting: 1. Get lots of sports photos to work from. 100 or more recommended. You certainly won’t benefit from doing the same 10 over and over. 2. Ask a family member to pose for you. Have a list of poses for them such as “shoot a basketball”, “swing a golf club”, etc. They only have to hold the pose for about 10 seconds. (Gestures are fast.) 3. Use a sports movie or show and freeze the action to sketch from. 4. The ultimate gesture challange is to work from a sports movie and only freeze the action in your mind. You can do this as a sport spectator too. The main thing is to make it fun so that you will keep practicing. Draw on! 
Tree

4 Artists Paint a Tree

Cheryl
Walt Disney narrates a great example of how the views of a single object can be drastically different from one artist to the next.The four artists that are featured: Walt Peregoy, Marc Davis, Eyvind Earle, and Josh Meador, take on the task of drawing the exact same tree with very different approaches. Each of their styles adds something different and amazing to their finished products. Check out the video at this link:  Four Artists Paint a Tree