Monday, July 20, 2015

Cats Lesson 1

Encouraged by Robin from Pink House Studios, (Thank you!) I signed up to take Carla Sonheim's Cats, a self-directed drawing class. I have Carla's book Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists and have enjoyed working through some of the exercises. I had no doubt I would enjoy Cats (not to be confused with the musical which sux)

The first lesson was to warm up by drawing a page of cats from one's imagination. The only rule, you couldn't sketch and refine (and refine) your drawing with a pencil (guilty!), but had to put a permanent marker to paper.

Drawing was followed by painting juicy, watercolor blots and then adding details to bring out the cats. Fun.




4 comments:

  1. You are going to have so much fun. My favorite is the upside down cat in the first drawing.

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    1. That's the way Ink sleeps. Sometimes he sleeps with his eyes open which is freaky

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    1. They were fun. Thanks for pointing me to Carla Sonheim's class.

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