Here's my "Clumsy" picture for Illustration Friday. I was remembering how much fun it was to draw when I was little because I'd draw whatever was in my head without worrying about reference material, or composition or any of the things we learn later. The pictures may have been "clumsy" but they were unique! I tried to capture a little of that feeling with this. I used my watercolour crayons and no references. I've seen way too much art and had too many art classes to ever draw the way I did when I was five, but that's probably a good thing. It's enough just to remember the feeling.
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dreariness The weather people have been promising sun for the last few days but I haven't seen it. I don't mind a little grey now and then but sometimes you just need some colour! Luckily my friend Lisa from Belise on Paper lent me a most amazing book by Harry Rand on the painter and architect Hundertwasser. Not only is he an amazing painter and a truly original architect, but he also says the most incredible things. I may not always agree with him, but I always love reading what he said. Here is my Hundertwasser quote for today: A colourful world is always a synonym for paradise. A grey or monocoloured world is always a synonym for purgatory or hell. Hell is only red: everything is red, fire, faces, blood - it is horrible. Just as horrible is a world which is only blue. If you live in a hell of vegetation, in the middle of the jungle where everything is green all the time, you go mad, the red hell, the black hell, the grey hell. In cities you have it grey. It is strange that architects continue to build more grey. The diversity of colour brings betterment, brings paradise. - Friedensreich Hundertwasser I Love this Guy!! Too bad he died in 2000! If you were like me and have never heard of Hundertwasser, you should look him up. I am going to banish my "grey hell". I will Hundertwasserify it! Below are some marvelous Hundertwasser paintings to brighten your day. This was a busy weekend. Many things are swirling around in my head. I met some interesting new people and saw some beautiful encaustic painting. I had to drop out of my watercolour class, where we were going to paint snow, and switch to mixed media. I love mixed-media, my daughter would say "obvay" for obviously. But I also love love love watercolour so I'm a bit torn about that. I was also strongly reminded of what it is like to be twentyish and in love...or not in love... and all the problems with being twentyish. That reminded me of the Pepsi commercial where they ask, "Is there anything else youthful you'd like to experience?". When I think back to all the gut wrenching relationships I had back then I think, "I'd rather have a Pepsi", and I don't even like Pepsi!
I painted the picture above , which is a combination of some of my weekend; lost love, watercolour and Illustration Friday's new word, "wilderness"! Hope you like it. |
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