Day 7 16th May

Not sure what happened yesterday but I didn't get around to writing anything down.....mmm note to self - this is okay.

I have a couple of my pictures, drawings that I would like to share with you.

This one is of a millipede/catapillar type of creature that is showing you what makes me happy.

The next one is of a piece of 'zentangle inspired art'. I like doing these as they are relaxing in the actual execution of the pattern but sometimes I get a bit stressed about what pattern should go where.

I think that the shading in these gives them the 3D quality.
In my first attempts I was only using the pencil and then blending the shadow with my finger. I was not all that happy with the results so today I tried using a blending stump and the results are so much better. I don't know if it is because you push the graphite more into the paper with the stump but the result is just so good.

The good things about today. It was a beautiful day weather wise. I had a nice hot cup of coffee at the cafe and had a bit of time while it cooled to work on another pattern in my ZIA (zentangle inspired art).

A book that I had ordered a few weeks ago arrived. It is Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists, by Carla Sonheim. I haven't had a chance to have a really good look at it so I will be doing that later on tonight.

I hope that you have had something good in your day.
Lou