When I’m drawing, I never really think about how complex one of my drawing might be. One line tends to lead gently to the next, and certain types of shapes like to appear in family groups at times. Bit by bit, it all adds up until the drawing is full of lines and shapes that just feel like they make sense to me.
It’s when I’m slow coloring the wide tipped version of a drawing that I surprise myself with just how much there is to explore in each pattern. Drawing time always has a sense of timelessness and I totally lose track of how long it may take to get all of the details just right. But when coloring time is combined with taking progress photos, I see all of those details in a new way. Every once in a while I’m tempted to sit down and count how many individual coloring spots there are on a page – but I’m not sure I actually want to find out. That might the thought of drawing the next page quite daunting!
Letting all of this go at it’s own pace feels best, and I can look around me desk and see captured moments in time from all stages of the process. In one place, a loose drawing on a piece of junk mail that reminds me of party horns and candy wrappers with wings. Some kind of bathtub shaped thing on a sketchbook page that has an edging of Hollywood lights and feet like squashed tomatoes. Book drawings in progress and recent colorings stacked up ready to go into a folder. Everywhere I turn, line and shape doing odd and unexpected things, and eventually bursting into color in all kinds of unpredictable ways. This is really so much more fun than trying to draw a tree that looks like a tree, lol.
Today’s coloring progress slideshow:
Today’s book: Transcend For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers (Angie’s Gentle Mood Menders – Volume 4)
Colored with: Derwent Graphitint pencils