The Frog

My lovely Monday ArtDays group task for this week is Frog. And this is my contribution.

Little Yard (Tbilisi)

This my first sketch in Tbilisi, Georgia. I'm visiting my relatives and foresee many interesting photos and sketches, as the place in very inspiring.

Prussian Blue

A4********The main color of this painting is Prussian Blue (Yarka), which I completely forgot to use, but suddenly recalled. I like how warm it turned out. ********* There is no good Russian watercolor paper, and I was trying to find some solution to get heavy weight paper which holds water OK. I always hope to find cheap things with great quality (strange, but this seach almost never works :-)). There was a lot of experiments, no good search results. This painting is done on the last sheet of my experiments, la-la-la!And I made very good NewYear present for myself - roll of Arches 300gr cold pressed. It is New Year, by the way! *********So now I have Russian 200gr paper for further study and Arches for meditation and inspiration and ... for painting, too (not so sure). Happy me.

Study Room

A4, Aluminium mug
It took 6 hours to draw this mug. (2 lessons, 3 hours each with 30 min. tea break) With the help of my teacher, who marked the details. It happened that I am not strong in the details, don't see them, same in life. I catch the task in full value, find the main ways to solve it and do not pay attention to small details. Funny how drawing/painting style points out the style of your character.

Morocco

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Next light/shadow experiment.

Does the Sun exist at all?

With all my 100% optimistic nature I want to forwarn that I will go mad, if I do not see the sun in the nearest days. It occured to be so hard challenge to live without seeing the sun...
What do you think: do I have to add yellow to the sunny side of the buildings to make contrast stronger?

Yellow!

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Another experience from my watercolor class.

In these grey time in Moscow (almost 7 weeks non-stop, 49 days!) the only possibility for me to catch some sun is to find  yellow and red in anything I see around.
Why two? The teacher saw several mistakes in first one (to tell the truth, I think it's genius!) and I decided to try another one (another genius work but with few more form and color deformations :-))

Everyday matters #4

EveryDayMatters #4 task - Draw your bed.
I had a thought: All that EDM tasks fulfiled and joined together (draw your house, draw your watch, draw your favorite jewelry) can be a good study material for the potential thief or maniac :-)))

Posemaniacs.com

Posemaniacs. com is the gem for the learning to draw as I am. They have all possible versions of poses for drawing and sketching, and it is for free. Long ago I added the link to their site to my blog, but only recently started following them attentively. The back of my cat is added only to make them four.

Cityscape

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Morocco cityscape. I can not believe the sun exists at all, after 6 weeks of no-sun in Moscow...
It was interesting for me to try cold/warm contrast.