Us old folk spend half our days in the Dr. office somewhere- and it is sooo fun- NOT! But this day when Grammie came back to the waiting room, she had to wait on me for a minute so I could finish up this quickie. Lots of nice negative space, dark colors, and reflected light makes for a good subject in my book. By now if you have seen some other posts, you know I llike doing chairs. Hey they are usually a ready subject, and they sit a lot quieter than the grandkids!
So this is sorta what it is like on a rainy May day when the world is growing and no one is out and about. The rain had slowed all but the necessary activities- like drawing in the rain. i had just left the creek bottom and was headed up the road but stopped at this corner for a few. Cannot say I was over impressed with the results, but I like it better now. It would make a good watercolor... Even though it is 2 days to Christmas, it is warm and rainy now, just not the new growth of spring, but maybe we can get inspired to go out and sketch!
Nice if you have a few minutes in the evening when nothing is going on (ha ha!) to have some options to draw using negative space just for practice. This particular chair came with us from Eudora, though it was bought in Lawrence at a garage sale on south Connecticut back in the '70s. Never refinished, but it did get reupholstered by Linda Hamilton's father. He did it as a thank you to Stephanie for her encouragement of Linda. When they were leaving our house one day the old man threw it over his shoulder and they walked out the door with it. It came back later from his shop in Leavenworth with this nice cushioned seat.
A drawing of the full rocker was posted earlier, but this drawing was inspired by the recurring position of my hat when I come in from the wet weather in the colder times of the year. A simple illustration of a simple moment. MGH and I went by Vanderbuilts some years ago to see if I could find a hat like his. This oilcloth hat was very similar, and as I recollect, on sale! So I always think of Matthew when I put it on. The rocker came from the last day of my last full year at work. This was done with the flat Generals pencil on a day similar to what we are having now- rainy and cool.
Well although you cannot see a date on this photo, it was done last June. It is good to get some practice doing plants you see in the woods. I had taken an old bike 2 blocks over to the lake trail mid morning. I was hoping to find just what I did- on the north side of the circle walk south of the Nature Center there was an elm sapling catching the sun just as I had seen it a few days before. As I was standing there straddling the bike and sketching one of the girls from the center came by collecting leaf specimens for one of the classes she was teaching later that day. The drawing was a great learning experience for me. I do not think an elm leaf made it to the class however.
This drawing was done during what was I guess one of the few warm spells in Georgia this summer on the 21st of August. A lot different then it is now in Colorado at 11 degrees and snowing. It was about 5 PM when we arrived at the edge of the mountains and the town of Blue Ridge, GA. We had a little time to kill before the kids arrived for the weekend, so the ladies hit the shops along the double mainstreet, and I settled into the shade of the bandstand in the park for a few minutes of sketching. It was warm, so the shade felt good. No one else was around, so I had only to share the place with the wasps flying about. Never did get stung, just bit by the sketchin' bug...
