As you’ve probably noticed by now, I’m an abstract art kind of gal. That’s because I can’t draw. Oh sure, there was that time in second grade when I drew a picture of a Baltimore Oriole and its nest, but that was a fluke. The thing is… I want to be able to draw! I was going to sign up for a drawing class at school, but since I’m not a matriculated student (I’m a mere employee), by the time I could register the class was already full.
So when Jessica at cre8it announced she was going to do an online drawing class, I got very excited! I’d taken her online journaling class, and that was excellent. We’re coming to the end of Week 2, and we’ve drawn all the basic shapes… circles, squares/rectangles and triangles. Thanks to an increasingly wonky printer/scanner, I haven’t been able to scan my “homework” assignments until today.
But ta da! Look! I’ve drawn something! And I even recognize what it’s supposed to be! Go Kelly! Go Kelly!
I can’t wait to see what we’ll be drawing this week.
Tipis © Kelly Naylor 2008
I liked working with “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” and gathered with some friends (years ago!) once a week, with the help of some margaritas, if I recall correctly, to go thru the exercises designed to subevert the L-Mode thinking to get to the R-Mode where we can give up assigning a name to things and just see what we want to draw.
It was a lot of fun and she really gets down to what is going on in the brain so that you can reproduce that once you have completed the exercises.
If you can hold a pencil, she says, you can draw. It is more about seeing.
Bravo for making something you recognize – I get excited when I can do that too!! 🙂
Keep at it, you will do great!
Pam Hoffman
http://seminarlist.blogspot.com
Nice work.. love the simplicity..
Doing illo is like a therapy.. bringing out the inner side of you.. 🙂
Oh, I need to sign up feed and see what she comes up with next. 🙂
I did love to draw, but stopped when around 15.
Boys and Parties got more important 😉
I love those tents 😀
Nicole
http://nicoleb.org/b2/
Pam… I’ve got both the book and the workbook for Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and can’t seem to get through it. Apparently, I need to get a group of friends together for margaritas! That would certainly shake things loose in the ol’ brain!
Rizal… Thanks. Right now, it’s still kind of hard work, but as it gets easier, I can see where it would be great therapy.
Nicole… hee hee I’m so far past 15 that I’m not sure I even remember being crazed about boys and parties. Well, maybe vaguely.
Go Kelly, Go ! lol 🙂
I like the drawing very much. The colors are wonderful.
Thanks for the link. I’m a dabbler when it comes to art and craft, but I’ve never found anything to make me passable at drawing.
Yep, I love the simplicity of it, too 🙂
Diane Scott (from blogcatalog)