Why is it that I never see that my sketches are are on an angle and look like they are going to slide right off the page until I get home and scan them? I thought I was being so careful to get by guidelines parallel to the bottom of the paper. How frustrating! Ugh! Perhaps I need to resort to using a ruler to set up the basics next time. Or just embrace the wonkiness of it all.
After a slow start in Canberra this year, the cold weather has hit with force in the past week, and for the first time this year I cracked out a beanie and my fingerless gloves to go drawing. I also had the presence of mind to bring plenty of bulldog clips to stop my bits and pieces from being blown away.
No matter the weather though, I always love getting out to sketch with like minded people, and it’s not every day you get to draw dinosaurs!
Funny comment of the day came from a young dad with a junior burger on his shoulders… “Look! This lady is painting! Watch how she looks up at the dinosaurs and then looks down and paints and remembers what she was looking at! Sometimes she even changes paint colours. Oooh … now she is washing her brush in the water jar. She is very good… daddy cannot draw stick figures” “Ok daddy. Can I go in the dinosaur mouth?” Hehehe. Made me smile.
Tell me what you think!