I keep finding new adventures in the art world. For the past 6 or 7 weeks I have been taking a beginning colored pencil class. What fun! Here you can see what I have done from earliest to most recent. I’ll say more at a later date because I am doing 2-fingered typing while my splinted finger heals.
A bit past prime, but the Mr. Lincoln is one of the loveliest deep red roses.
I decided to attempt a more high key painting today – one with a lot of white! I always look for contrast, but here I tried to lessen the usual contrast. Maybe it’s because I rather like contrasty photos as opposed to subtle one with a long scale of color or black and white. Even here, I kept adding contrast! It’s a fixation . . . but contrast is how we differentiate shapes and depth, so it’s necessary, but I am trying to minimalize it. Not sure if it worked or not!
Roses, this spring, are doing well. The first round of blooms has begun to fade, but new buds keep appearing to continue the cycle. I don’t remember the name of this rose, but it has a light, delicate fragrance, and rather loose, floppy petals, much like a wild rose.
… a rose embower’d
In its own green leaves,
By warm winds deflower’d,
Till the scent it gives
Makes faint with too much sweet . . .
Ink, Yarn & Beer 