What have you been meaning to draw?
Monday May 15, 2006
I was looking out of my window at a wonderfully untidy clump of long-stemmed yellow flowers that are growing beside a large blue pot, and wondered why I hadn't drawn them yet. I could do the sort of drawing that I so admired in Richard Bell's Rough Patch garden sketchbook. So why not? Because it takes time. There's quite a few, and complex, in that rambling, informal-garden kind of way. It would take a good hour or so. Which doesn't sound a lot, but an entire, uninterrupted hour is a rare thing for most of us, isn't it! But I think I will draw them, tomorrow. After I've put on the laundry, tidied the house and played fetch with the puppy until he's ready for a nap. So that rather than a hurried photograph, I will have given that hour of thought and line and color to my subject, and I'll always remember their golden scruffiness in the last warm rays of autumn sunshine.
What would you like to draw - and why haven't you drawn it yet?
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Comments
Ah, I have my comic ideas I’ve been meaning to draw… And a whole folder of faces I want to sketch. If only I had that wonderful uninterupted hour.
Me,,,I have been meaning to do a self-portait.
But I am afraid it will not look like me,
convesely, I am afraid it will look like me.
I would like to paint something like botanicals ( fruits or flowers).
I would like to draw a grassy field with a hedgerow, a tree or two, some old wooden fences by a dusty lane, maybe some sheep grazing - all drenched in full sunlight with delightful shadows.
I would also like to carry my sketchbook and a pen with me at all times.
Peter
Peter, that sounds lovely! I’d love to live somewhere where I had a view like that to draw! Here its bone-dry fields and thirsty gum trees, ugly wire fences and power-lines.