盲画 墨水

先把满纸都涂得灰灰的，然后在有光的地方扣出白的地方。 橡皮泥太旧了，变成脏的。

So I thought vine charcoal would work better for drawing this globe. Wrong again!
After I put down the darkest shade and started blending them, all the powders of vine charcaol fell off the paper….and left me with a light grey shade….

QUICKLY switched back to compressed charcoal.

My approach with shadows, base on experiences with pencil, was to put charcoal down first, blend, and then erase later…
Big mistake.
Charcoal does not come off once it is on the paper… it gets lighter, but never completely gone…

Note to self: when working with a new medium, try it on a small area first!

两只角没地方画了。。。。整体策划啊整体策划

侧面熊

详写篇
挑战直线

曲线

第一次画人物啊。我觉得特别不好意思，怕画得不好，又怕模特坐太久累，又不好意思拿铅笔比来比去。画人物和画瓶子还真有很大差别。战战兢兢画完了。 鸿飞评价说，终于画得有人样了。我因为要开启乐观的人生态度，我决定把这话当成鼓励。

因为我觉得实在不好，加上我的模特又很鼓励我。我于是又画了一张。
结果更不好了。算了，人物先放一边。明年再战！

映日荷花别样红

洪飞看到就说， 啊！兔子。
我说，啊！这你都能看出来？

窄窄的麻袋

好吧，我承认这个超过20秒。

The original sktech was done by, I AM GUESSING, Henri Matisse although I couldn’t find this exact sketch under his name.

Although it was upside down, I was still very conscious of the body parts that I was drawing, “now I am doing the eyes”, “now the hair”, “fingers”, etc…
Can’t seem to kick the left brain out.

I was totaly lost in the lines in that Picasso sketch although I was only 1/3 of the way. Before my eyes crossed over, I looked up and realized that I only did the bottom of the chairs and the guy’s legs. Called it a night!

Right now… the plant is doing great, growing and changing everyday.
But my painting is struggling.

Narcissus means Chinese New Years in my book.
Grandpa planted them in a flat rectangular blue ceremic pot filled with water and brightly colored stones.
He planted them at just the right time so they started to bloom couple days before Chinese New Year.
Different plants, same paperwhites, every Chinese New Year.

A sofa bed would be setup for me next to the big desk where the paperwhite sat. That’s where I slept everyday.
Then one morning, the plants would be gone. Water would be drained, too. Only these brightly colored stones and the blue cremic pot were left.

Then, and for the rest of the years, we had to go on without the smell of paperwhite everymorning. The pot and stones were hid away in a dark closet somewhere waiting for next Feburary to come around.
Couple weeks later, my winter break would be over, too. I would head back home with my parents. The sofa bed would be back to being a sofa in grandpa’s study.

Now, that is a page from my childhood.

As I am recounting all these details, I realized why it was nice being a kid.
Everything seemed so grand!! The big desk, the blooming flowers, and grandpa!

I love tulips! We went to OSH this weekend to buy tulips seeds and planted them. I never knew that their seeds looked like baby onions! Now, we just sit and wait. In four monthes, if everything goes well, we will have tulips to wake up to in the mornings~ ***fingers crossed***

Somehow it went from “need more water”, ” need more water”….to…”too much water!”, “everything smushed together”
I repeatedly missed the sweet pots!

What a mess!!
Plus, I have no patients for the colors to dry out.

What have I learned from this one?
Wait longer for the background to dry. It also need more water to start with.
I know the tress branshes are done totally wrong. BUt I don’t know how to fix it.

This one?
Wrong colors for all of the flowers!
Leave blanks for lights.
Doing something about those edges/better definitions for the pedals.

Similar to the urge of being the first to walk and leave foot prints on fresh snow,
I couldn’t wait to paint on the new sketch book that is full of blank, pristine pages.

Instead of trying to paint an object and fail at it, I just played with the new brush tonight.

and practiced control….

and practiced layering washes…..

and failed miserably at it(buildings on the right)….
then got a little better at it (purple and green on the left)….
and FINALLY got it ( light blue in the middle)!!!

The layers could finally smoothly blend together….I even left space for windows without having them look too awkward.
The light, smooth and dreamy color even reminded me of, if I dare, those white and blue Mediterranean houses in Greek. :B
ANYWAY!!