More scribbles in this sketch. Frankly, as negative space, it doesn’t work here (it did work yesterday). If it were patterned (like the space in ‘Night Sky’ by Van Gogh) it could mean something. However the not-quite-random pencil mark of the background tell more about the artist than they convey about the subject of the […]
I sketched this fig tree many times. This is among my first attempts. It is worth while to draw the same subject time after time. One can use different techniques, or practice the same ones over and over. The change over time is an improvement in one’s vision.
My sister-in-law passed away yesterday. She was a wonderful woman and will be sorely missed. This portrait does not resemble her. Tomorrow’s will be better.
I’m told that the eyes and the mouth are not right.
