Following on from my trip to New Designers, I mentioned that myself and Megan Ashwell Designs were going to be challenging ourselves with a new project (if you missed that post, you can view it here).
Our plan for the project is to chose a theme to work with, and produce at least one drawing a day based on that theme for a whole month. The idea behind this is to come up with some new imagery in our drawings to use for developing new work, for instance recreating a drawing onto the ceramic surface.
The theme we have chosen is Garden/Nature/Outdoors – Quite an obvious theme for us both and it is very loose which can relate to a wide range of different smaller themes, but I wanted to start in my comfort zone ready to branch out and focus on a much more challenging theme in the next project, all being well!
Megan has chosen to focus on motif’s which is much more apt to her style of work. Although she has mentioned that she doesn’t want to focus solely on flowers so I will be keeping a close eye on her sketchbook and making sure she sticks to her goal 🙂 It’s great being able to meet up with another creative person and bounce ideas off one another.
We have agreed to meet up once a week if we can, and visit a local area to just sit and draw.
We started last Monday, so here are my daily drawings from last week:
Day 1: Looking at a hanging basket, gorgeous blue flowers and some honey suckle that my Nan gave me, growing up a trellis in my garden. I wanted to leave this drawing ‘unfinished’, with only some areas painted with colour.
Day 2: From down low… Looking up at tall spindly trees. This one was a lot of fun and will look great recreated onto clay!
Day 3: Pencil drawing – Horse in a cow parsley field. (lucky thing!)
Day 4: Pen & Ink countryside scene.
Day 5: Watercolour reflections and patterns on the surface of water, finished off with Karisma pencils and shiny tin foil collage. I’m already imagining this design on a vase…
Day 6: Tulip studies. I love this form, and it works well as a repeat pattern.
Day 7: Focusing on leaves from the peace lily plant in my living room while watching tv 🙂
I have been posting each drawing on my Facebook page daily, so if you’re interested in keeping up with our project be sure to like my page to see what I’ve been up to.
Check out Megan’s Facebook page where you will find her daily drawings too!
We are off out for a drawing session Wednesday evening… watch this space 🙂
