Or is it Alta Lane? Alta Drive? Alta Road? I’m talking about Wilsonia, specifically The Cabins of Wilsonia. In my interview with myself, I revealed the strategy for drawing all the cabins. Alphabetically, by street name, means that the first set of drawings is for Alta Street/Lane/Drive/Road.
Nope, you don’t get to see the entire set because I hope you will want to buy the book and not say “that old thing? I already saw it on her blog!”
Let’s have a little drawing lesson. You can’t draw a light thing – instead, you draw the dark around it. The foxglove at the base of this pencil drawing show up because of the boards in the background. In Artspeak, the boards are the “negative space”.
Don’t you feel learned now? And isn’t “learned” the funniest word?
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It is incredible to me that what you learned me never even occured to me. An artist i am not and you are! P.S. If you respond to my comments, do they also go to my email or just to the blog for that date?
Deb, when I reply to your comments in the blog, they show up in the blog. If you have subscribed to the blog with the RSS feed maybe you get an email. Sometimes when I comment on a blog there is a box to check that says to notify me if there are follow up comments. Not sure how it looks from your side!
Jana/Cabinart,
Yes, I like feeling “learned” and being taught things. Thank you. 🙂 Will that book be for sale on your site here? I’ve often been tempted to look more seriously through your site.
Do you have any more murals lined up? When is your next show?
Jennifer Dougan
http://www.jenniferdougan.com
Jennifer, so glad to be able to add to your learning! The book will be for sale on my site, but holy-guacamole, it will be awhile yet! And please do look through my site – that’s why it is all connected!
Saturday I measured and discussed another mural. Now I have 2 smallish ones to bid and then stand back and see if they materialize in the potential customers budgets. And the next event is the studio tour in March, and after that, an outdoor festival here in Three Rivers. Hope I can paint enough smalls in between all the drawing to have merchandise!
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