My dear wife likes to pinch off blossoms from the Azaleas and put them on the kitchen table in a little blossom bowl. I thought they made a nice subject for a sketch.
Once again, nature proves to be complicated. There are so many leaves, petals, shadows and such in that little bunch of blossoms in that little blossom bowl…it’ll make your eyes play tricks on you trying to keep up with where you are in the sketch.
So the lesson is to simplify so you can learn about how these blossom thingies are constructed.
The more you sketch, the better you become at capturing shapes and details…and simplifying. Note that “capturing” is different from “copying”. Capturing is actually better.
Even so, there are days like today, where you simply don’t do a well as you’d like. That’s the beauty of it though.
You still sketch.
You still learn.
You still enjoy.
And it doesn’t really matter if you’re “off” because you’re not trying to impress anybody. You’re just sketching for the rewards of it.
That is the goal after all. In the big picture, a year from now, you can see and review your good days and your bad days and learn from that too.
2 Comments
What do you mean “off”??? Lovely botanical study!
Hi Lindsay!
Well, lets just say I struggled more than usual with this one
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