Sunday, September 30, 2007

Maria a la Modigliani

After the Modigliani exhibit in Toronto in 2005, I was inspired to draw my daughter in similar style. My intention was to paint her...I still intend to...but life has gotten in the way somewhat.


What I am especially pleased about is that she really likes this drawing of herself with bangs!!!




Monday, September 24, 2007

Finally...two EDM challenges done!

OK...I think I've figured out how to post my drawings. Somehow they look better in real life than on the computer. I guess the next step is for me to figure out how the camera works and take a decent picture.

The first one is my bedpost. The funny thing about this is, we've had this bed since we got married...and it was only recently that I realized my bed as a girl was also a "cannonball" bed.


The second challenge is a drawing of my feet...which also looks better in the sketchbook than it does here.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

what a rough week...

All in all, it was generally a rough week. Did I manage to get some drawing in? Yes. Where they great? No, but that's not what I'm striving for. Did they help me deal with some of the raw emotions that came up to the surface? Yup! What a cheap source of therapy!!!

I did a couple of the EDM challenges. I sketched my feet. That was fun. One would think I have an obsession with my feet (which I probably do - for the amount of shoes I buy). It seems I have a number of photos and sketches of my feet. As I was sketching this challenge, I had a flash of memory that I had done a similar sketch before. After flipping through a couple of older sketchbooks, it was indeed true I had sketched my feet a few times! It would be fun just to collect all the photos and sketches I have of my feet and put them together in a collage. "Lillian's feet" -- well...after all, they are my most favourite part of my body! ;-)

Thursday, September 20, 2007

a deep sorrow

Life is so very fragile. Talking with a dear young friend about the near loss of a friend, the grief, the frustration and the anger. All very passionate, very intense emotions. How can I console someone when these are emotions I have difficulty controlling. Controlling emotions...like controlling watercolours in a puddle of water. What transpires can be something very beautiful, or something very chaotic, undescribable. My belief is that whether we can tell what the painting is or not, it retains its own beauty though we may not see it through our emotions or even want to see it.

A long time ago, a friend lost her baby at 8 months of pregnancy. After the funeral of the baby, when we were all gathered, trying to support her, she was able to make us understand how she was handling this very tragic time in her life. She told us...life is like a tapestry where God only sees the finished product and we only see the frayed underside - forever unable to see the beauty of the tapestry. We know there is order, only we can't see it. That has comforted me even in my deepest, darkest periods.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

started drawing

I started drawing last night! I sat in bed with my sketchbook and sketched my bedpost...then I got sleepy so I didn't finish. It felt so good drawing again. I find the EDM Challenges as a really great kick-start to drawing. I just follow the list (well, I've just started following the list) and draw!!

Sunday, September 9, 2007

this week was not too productive...personally

Didn't do any drawing...actually, didn't do much of anything for myself but work this week. It was the first week back to school and it just flew by.

It was also Frosh week...so...I was driving my young Frosh leader to and fro...at one point she was purple...like an Easter egg....oh my!! my beautiful girl -- PURPLE....but she had fun so it was all worth it. The boys went back to school too and had a great week....

Also, still working on the house too...so...squeezing time out where there isn't much will be an interesting challenge....

I'm hoping as things settle down and I'm working less from home, driving the kids around less, and I'll be able to make some time to draw....or not, we'll see!

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Sunday

I've really been inspired by the Everyday Matters group on Yahoo (see link below to join). I've just spent the morning perusing through the many blogs and postings of beautiful art. I also posted this site on my Art Interests online conference that I moderate at work.

Saturday, September 1, 2007

first blog

This is the first post to this blog. I'm starting a blog because I came across a group in Flickr called Everyday Matters. And it seems to be an art group and it's inspired me to draw again.

...at least for now.