Elizabeth’s Art Emporium
An Artist’s Ramblings
Sketching Fun
This week there was lots of fun at the studio. As a result of COVID restrictions our life drawing group could no longer meet in person, however we decided to stay in touch through a weekly Zoom meeting which we named the Virtual Art Café. This grew into a weekly art challenge where one person would select a famous artist, do a little research, select their own photo’s and provide this information to the group. Our portion of the challenge was to do our own painting of the picture provided in the style of the famous artist. As you can imagine we have had quite a lot of fun with this exercise besides doing something we love we are updating our Art History knowledge. By using our skills in unusual ways and getting outside our comfort zone it has encouraged us to think outside the box and kept our creativity going. For myself I believe it has strengthened my knowledge of who I am as an artist.
This past week’s challenge was to complete 10 or more sketches of people. These were to be short completed in 5 minutes or less and done in the urban sketcher style. Well because of our having to stay in most of the time we were not able to go to a café and get live models so we made the best of it and used the internet, TV and some Zoom meetings (which was pretty close to having a live model). These are just a few of my sketches from this past week that I thought I would share.
I am not going to embarrass myself or the person I was sketching by telling you who they are, but some of them should be quite recognizable.
Can you tell by the way I put my lines down how much fun I was having?
It was such fun to participate in this, I consider myself most fortunate and very blessed to have these creative people to share my passion for all things artistic.
