I had this watercolor unfinished for more than a week but last night I could finally finish it. I am still a big fan of the Film Noir genre and lately I listened to some Raymond Chandler audiobooks. My watercolor is actually inspired by the movie adaption “The Big Sleep” by Howard Hawks – still […]
Sometimes it looks like my gypsy caravan.
Sometimes for fun, or just to get started for the day, I’ll do quick drawings in Neopastel. This time it was apples. To add to the fun — and for my own perceptual interest — I also drew without my glasses. I have fairly profound myopia. It’s interesting to observe the much more generalized forms of things as they appear in my uncorrected vision. Color looks a bit different too. Not that it changes hue or anything. It’s just that it gets similarly clumped into masses, ones that are a bit different from what I see when the acuity is there.
This second one I did very quickly, without glasses. I had to get up for something going on in another room of the house. When I returned the light was completely changed. Sometimes it changes very quickly. So it’s en plein indoor drawing — one deals with all the fluctuations.
And then there was one!
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