Spirit Bear |
This morning, I decided to do another painting on Yupo paper. I set my alarm for twenty minutes, thinking I might submit it to the Twenty Minute Challenge. I redrew yesterday's sketch on Yupo paper with a black Prismacolor pencil and then painted quickly and boldly with transparent watercolor. I have been thinking about the mystical Spirit Bears up in British Columbia ever since I saw this National Geographic video.
I have been practicing contour drawings which made me realize that I don't draw the interior of my subjects enough. Contour drawing should be about exploring and expressing the shapes inside of the outlines. This was done from the bear photo I posted.
This bear figurine has a lot of shape and texture which I really got into and overstated. In drawing, I try to practice, improve, learn, grow, push my boundaries and not to be too concerned about the end result.
These two minute gesture sketches of a crow are done with a 3B pencil. When each two minutes is up, the crow (a Halloween decoration) is turned 1/4 turn, the same way as the bear above. I strongly recommend this exercise! Remember everything is sketchable.
I'm not the only one sketching bears these days! YAY!! Thanks Susan!
I hope you are getting inspired and your summer is off to a great start!
Thanks for reading and as always, I'd love to hear from you!
Lovely drawings! Is that your horse and foal drawing on the side? I love it! =)
ReplyDeleteThanks Felicity! Yes, that drawing is by me. Nice to meet you here. ☺
DeleteI love the way you study things in depth. Great artistic expression. Your bears are all great.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad we finally met up and you invited me to post on the 20 min. Challenge blog, Teri! Woo Hoo, I can feel those creative juices flowing! Can't you? Thanks so much for your encouraging words!
DeleteI love your contour and gesture sketches!!!! The Yupo paper is interesting and like the results you achieved. I might have to try that sometime ;-)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the bears I did.
Thanks Susan! Hey - I can't believe you have never used YUPO paper AND that there is something that you haven't tried yet! LOL, You are the queen of art materials! As always, thanks for your participation and comments!
DeleteOH Sandy, your spirit bear is just marvelous! I love your contour drawings and your thoughts behind it - I think I need to spend more time on that as well - exploring the shapes... I have never had much luck with yupo, so I really admire your results here!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your nice comments. Nice meeting you here!
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