My husband likes to get to church early on Sunday morning to organize his thoughts, conduct book study, and get settled in before the congregation arrives. We drive together, but I like to hang outside and draw somewhere nearby. This winter, I noticed the shadows cast up the street on the Old Ordinary, home of the Hingham Historical Society. I posted my five hundred fourth drawing of the building using ink and markers a couple of weeks ago, with its beautiful shadow pattern. Today I used my watercolors for the same view. There is a snow storm predicted for tonight, so the clouds were encroaching, but I could see the shadows intermittently and took advantage.
You can see my in process photograph below, taken from the dash board of my car as I painted this morning.
This is my five hundred eighteenth daily drawing. Thank you, as always, for looking.
Each morning I sit on our porch with my coffee and fill my senses with the sounds, smells, and sights of our yard. The sun pours through the trees from the east, birds are busy among the flowers, and our gold fish pond bubbles away. This week, these small iris popped open. They last briefly, but are so beautiful. In the morning, they are backlit by the sun, and they sparkle against the green blue of the shaded trees. That was a challenge to capture, but I laid in the yellow and green in watercolor, then the purple/pink of the iris. Then I ramped up the darkness of the green blue with a series of colored pencil layers, darkened the yellow with pencil and added some yellow pastel in and among the greens.
This is my two hundred thirty-ninth daily drawing. It is my take on the theme "home" for our Girls Just Wanna Paint challenge for the month of May. Click through the link to see all our takes on the theme "home". Thank you for looking at the world through my eyes.
This is my five hundred eighteenth daily drawing. Thank you, as always, for looking.
