This afternoon I was in the mood to break away from watercolour… in hindsight I can see my patience hasn’t been very good for a couple of days and I’ve been struggling to get motivated, even though I do like the picture I was working on.
I spent quite a lot of today doing housework and chores, I often find this is a good form of meditation when my mind is running in circles. So I stripped the bed, did lots of washing, cut grass that was a good three weeks overdue (emptying the mower hopper every 3 feet!) and hoovered the whole house. At the end I took a sketch pad outside and wondered what, of all the interesting things in front of me, to draw….
And my beautiful little tri-colour, spotty pawed dog, Flint, sat on the (newly cut) lawn with his Christmas present and asked me to play… and I ignored him, took some photos and sketched him instead!! How mean am I? Actually, I did play with him for a while first before sketching :-).
It was difficult at first to get anywhere with it, but eventually I managed to find the patience I’ve been missing… it appeared somewhere halfway down his face – one moment I was wondering how little I could get away with and the next I was engrossed in working out how to distinguish the three separate colours of his coat as well as shadows and sunlight and a stuffed toy with two different textures. It didn’t come together perfectly, but I can’t explain how good I feel for persevering and breaking through that barrier, it’s been such a weight over recent days!
Beautifully seen and executed Kez, and interesting that you could put your finger precisely on the point when your head changed!!
Good blog Kerry, and a beautiful drawing of Flint enjoying his present. It’s lovely to hear what you’re doing from day to day, and much easier to visualise, now that we’ve seen your surroundings for ourselves.
Almost a year now, since you started “blogging”. Keep it going.
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