Drawings A Day: Drawing 23 - 28

Day Twenty-Eight: 08.08.10
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Day Twenty-Seven: 08.08.10
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Day Twenty-Six: 07.12.10
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Day Twenty-Four: 06.21.10
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Day Twenty-Three: 06.20.10

New Drawings...



Day Twenty-Two: 06.18.10
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Day Twenty-One: 06.17.10
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Day Twenty & 1/2: 06.16.10

Two new paintings.



Rankin's Grocery: Gas Tank 2
9x12-inches
Oil on Wood Panel

This oil painting is of an old gas station in Anderson, SC. I've done several color versions of different aspects of the old gas station, but this is my first black & white. By painting it black & white, it really allowed me to focus on the composition and object, and not the color.

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A History of Hands
9x12-inches
Oil on Canvas

An oil painting of an old door in Downtown Greer, SC. I really enjoyed playing with color in this one!

A Drawing A Day continued...



Day Twenty: 03.26.10
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Day Ninteen: 03.24.10
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Day Eighteen: 03.22.10

Tiger Touchdown
40x40-inches
Oil on Canvas
2010

This painting was a Valentine's Day gift for Morgan (my hubby). He took the original picture. I obviously made it a little more graphic and of course had to add his favorite # to it, 13.

When I first started "A Drawing A Day" I had planned to do a new drawing every day. As time went by I noticed I was stressing about it. So, I have decided that I will continue the drawings but if I miss a day, no big deal. This is a project to loosen up and relax, not something to stress about. So far I am really enjoying this. Since I began this project I have been painting a lot more and feeling so much more creative.



Day Seventeen: 02.17.10
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Day Sixteen: 02.15.10
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Day Fifteen: 02.14.10

Inspired by the recent snow.
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Day Fourteen: 02.10.10
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Day Thirteen: 02.09.10

Inspired by a painting I was doing for Morgan.

Drawing A Day: Day 11 & 12

Day Twelve: 02.08.10
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Day Eleven: 02.07.10

Day Ten: 01.27.10

Inspired by the pillow on my bed
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Day Nine: 01.26.10

No preconceptions when I started, just knew I wanted to use blue and black in the final product.

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Day Eight: 01.25.10

"Let me hear you say, this shit is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S"

- Hollaback Girl, Gwen Stefani

Day Seven: 01.24.10
All about simplicity, negative space and color.
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Day Six: 01.23.10

All about line and composition.
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Day Five: 01.22.10

Day Four: 01.21.10

Started just with the bananas but it needed something else so I added the design in the background.

A Painting A Day (Day 1-3)

Over the last couple of years I have given up my drawings in pursuit of my paintings. I love painting and will continue to paint but I've wanted to start working again on my drawings. I've read blogs where people do a painting/drawing a day. A lot of these sites seem to be for monetary reasons, but I want my drawings to be complete unattached from anything other than a few minutes of complete creativity. No intentions other than a drawing on paper with whatever medium I choose at the moment. No preconceptions, just drawing from the heart and mind.

I'm doing all the drawings on ATC (Artist Trading Card) Illustration Board. The cutouts are the same size as a regular trading cards such as a baseball card. Keeping the size small keeps it relatively simple to do a drawing a day, whether it be as you lay in bed, on the couch, at lunch, while your oil is getting changed, etc. And depending on my mood, it can take 2 minutes or it can take 2 hours.

Here are my first three drawings. I started on Monday, January 18, 2010. I will post the drawings every couple days. Please let me know your thoughts...



Day Three: 01.20.10
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Day Two: 01.19.10
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Day One: 01.18.10
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Place de la Concorde COMPLETE!

Place de la Concorde...COMPLETE!

Since the final dark glaze in the background has been added, I'm finally happy. There's some other ideas I have for a background but this particular painting is FINISHED! I would love to use this same subject matter with possibly different imagery but that's another time, another painting.