A week of coffee. In order to overcome my fear of filling the panoramic shape of my new watercolour notebook I set out to draw a coffee an hour a day this week (yes, the hardship). Gastronomic rewards aside, it actually looks like I learnt something! By the end of the week I'm filling more of the page, playing with reflections, shadows and instensity of colours.
I watched Danny Gregory's interview with Tommy Kane this week. Tommy draws amazing, detailed sketches with pen from the start and accomodates any errors on the way. I agree accepting the errors this way builds confidence of just getting stuck into what's in front. I wouldn't always do this but when I'm trying to get results from short sittings it seems to help.
Gorgeous, Chantal! I am loving your cafe sketches (you too, judging by your current blog header). Thanks for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Laura! They were fun and tasty subject ;)
DeleteBeautiful Chantal.
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Thanks Anne. I appreciate your kindness so much!
DeleteThese are wonderful Chantal! Love the way you manage the space...and I do love a flamingo too!
ReplyDeleteThanks Emily :) I had a good time painting these (as you can guess!). Even better that it all tasted as good as it looks ;)
DeleteHi Chantal! I just stumbled across your blog by accident after being a long-time follower on Instagram. So glad to have discovered this space with all of your drawings.
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Hi Megan, Thanks so much for your kindness! It makes me happy to know you've enjoyed finding the blog :) I try to use IG for my works in progress then put the final work and a bit of explanation up here. Thanks again for leaving a comment.. its sometimes hard to know if people ae keen on what I'm posting here as it used to be a lot more craft focussed and I realise I'm not adding the tutorials and such that I used to create. Cx.
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