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Here's a woman. Her face remains unknown as she's rear-faced to viewer. She's focused on a landscape beneath her.
This is a vision I draw on a paper recently. Soon I felt a need to do something interesting with it.
By "something interesting" I meant using pastels (both dry and oil), and also watercolour crayons. I craved to experiment with them.
I started with dry pastels. Then I used watercolour crayons for womanly silhouette.
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For some time I was working on a picture of a lady standing in the vague body of water. In today's post You will see a short story which started from a sketch made with a brown crayon, and ended with a portrayal of a Water Nymph.
Enjoy!
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| A brown crayon sketch I mentioned. |
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In the summary 2024 I mentioned that I'd like to create a picture inspired by Greek mythology. To be precise an image of certain goddess - by that I meant Artemis. Fascinating goddess of hunt, Apollo's twin sister who is associated with the Moon.
I thought of my future picture as a nocturne showing the mighty goddess standing prepared with her bow and arrows in the moonlight.
Below there are doodles in which I tried various poses.
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For some time certain thought was tickling my mind, and it was the idea of drawing a lady wearing a kimono. Maybe it's because I haven't been doing an art inspired by Japanese culture in quite a long time. At first I've got no idea how to compose a picture, or which colours I should choose. Finally I came up with usage of a contrast, and with an addition of something symbolic.
Below You could look at my work - letting the red crane go.
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| letting the red crane go, watercolour crayons on a watercolour paper, 19,7 x 14,5 cm. |
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Recently I was working on the drawing. I treated it as a form of exercise. My main model was a photo showing one of the statues from the garden in the Royal Palace of Caserta in Italy. I'm not sure who was pictured in this sculpture (I suspect it might be allegory of something associated with wisdom, or a goddess). The picture I'm talking about You will find HERE.
So, I took a pencil, a brown paper, and started drawing.
Soon afterwards I was not only using pencil but also a white crayon.
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Some time ago I took a brown crayon and sketched a rear-facing lady in a long dress.
I took a liking to it so much that the next step were pastels.
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| Mentioned sketch made with brown crayon. |
I thought that pastels could nicely help in achieving a fantastic picture. A picture which may be a dream, or a fantasy universe.
Below there are photos showing further phases of a creative process.
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Do You happen to remember my post about a drawing dreaming in the meadow? I asked because once again a photo from a thin tiny book with variety of aphorisms (e.g. "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." by Thomas Carlyle) inspired me to create a work. To be precise - a pastel.
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| In the upper left corner there is a mentioned photo from this little book. |
Lone tree among the lavender field - this scenery stimulates imagination.
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One day I thought that it might be a good idea to create a collage similar to Melancholy once again. By similar, I mean layering a paper with clipped parts on another paper (or cardboard) with press cuttings pasted on it.
As for work from today's post I came up with a concept of a collage made on circular media (after among the sunflowers I wanted to do tondo work again) with a horoscope as a main theme. What's the reason for choosing this theme? I've simply gathered lots of cuttings from horoscopes because I saw in them the potential for an interesting dada poem, or collage. I chose the collage option.
So, let's begin.
So, after I prepared a paper circle, and also a cardboard circle, I started drawing a silhouette of female fortuneteller with her crystal ball on the paper one. Above you can see a first draft.
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Spring came, and it is a pleasure to look at a gradual awakening of nature.
So, in today's post I'd like to show you a drawing of a young woman holding flowers.
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Recently an idea of portraying Snow White was tagging along me. It was nagging me quite intrusively so eventually, I decided to make it come true.
What may seem interesting it's not the first time I drew a work with Snow White. There's already 6th comic strip from the series "the Four Seasons in Four Frames" on this blog.
Below there's a very first draft of Snow White.
My first idea for depicting princess was showing her holding an apple, and looking curiously at a fruit. But as much as I was staring at my first draft of this concept I was feeling a lack of something.
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Here comes the 21st comic strip from the series the Four Seasons in Four Frames (in short: 4 in 4).
This time the main character of the story is Autumn.
PLOT:
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere Autumn is taking a stroll,
and suddenly she notices that leaves are falling off of her dress.
As always you will find the translation of bubbles below the comic strip.
ENJOY!
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So, it's time for the 20th comic strip from the series "the Four Seasons in Four Frames", which is also known as 4 in 4. There are 2 protagonists of this short story - Summer and Autumn.
PLOT:
Under the maple tree Summer and Autumn met in order to perform a certain ritual.
As always the translation of bubbles is below the comic strip.
ENJOY!
FIRST FRAME
Autumn: ... So, there is just us - Spring is sleeping, Winter's exhausted because of the heat.
Summer: In sum, I'm not surprised about it.
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Lately I was working on a drawing showing two sitting ladies leaning against their backs. I felt an urge to draw them because of a certain photo which I found in thin book with aphorisms (there are quotes like "Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study." by sir Francis Bacon).
In the upper part of this photo you can notice a photo in the mentioned book. When I looked at this photo I thought it would be fun to create a picture with two figures sitting like that. But show them in a different way, in a dreamy setting.
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Today I would like to share a new work with You. The idea of woman wearing yukata and holding a fan appeared in my mind. Honestly, it is quite possible that hot summer days have something to do with her holding this fan.
Uchiwa was a model of a fan for this drawing. Uchiwa is a handheld, traditional type of Japanese fan which has a form resembling a paddle. This coolish accessory is usually decorated with various patterns. So I designed a pattern with a ginger cat in the fan's centre, surrounded by forget-me-nots on the blue background.
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Here comes the 19th comic strip from the series "the Four Seasons in Four Frames", which could be also known as 4 in 4.
This time the protagonist is Spring.
PLOT:
Sudden change of weather, and one may wonder what Spring has to do with it...
As always translation of bubbles you will find below the comic strip.
ENJOY!
SECOND FRAME
STRIP: In this moment
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Here comes the 18th comic strip from series "the Four Seasons in Four Frames" (in short: 4 in 4).
This time the protagonist is Winter.
PLOT:
Winter is staring thoughtfully at an apple but suddenly a mysterious, shaggy creature disturbs her serenity...
As always - translation of bubbles is available below the comic strip.
ENJOY!
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Welcome back mermaids! It's been so long.
The last one work with mermaids I've published here was blue mermaid. Amazingly enough, there's a similarity between blue mermaid and Mermaid's charm (that's how I called new mermaid art). The posture of mermaids is alike.
This is Mermaid's charm.
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| Mermaid's charm, watercolour crayons on a watercolour paper, 14,8 x 21 cm. |
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So, the whole idea for today's work appeared in my mind as an image of mysterious woman holding a flower. But which flower should I portray? That's a question. At first it was a bit difficult riddle but then I made a selection, and chose iris.
In quite unexpected conclusion an image of Iris, goddess from Greek mythology emerged.
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| The doodle I made in order to record my vision. |
I drew a design on A3 paper.
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Recently I made a monochromatic nude of an imaginary female character.
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| monochrome nude, pencil and black crayon on paper, 14,8 x 21 cm. |
I drew a young lady with the only accessory which is a shawl with a floral pattern.
I put a paper on a box with an interesting, circular pattern. Then I started rubbing the paper with a black crayon. That's how the background was made.
That's all.
What is your opinion about monochrome nude?
Tell me in comments below.
Have a Nice Day!
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Here comes the 17th comic strip of the series the Four Seasons in Four Frames, in short 4 in 4.
This time the protagonist of the story is Autumn.
PLOT:
Autumn admires her pumpkin patch, and she's not the only admirer...
As always you will find the translation of bubbles below the comic strip.
ENJOY!
FIRST FRAME
Autumn: This year they grew up quite good...
