Day 5: Blackboard Bird, 8x10"

When I sat down to today's sketch, I knew I wanted to try something different. So I decided to work in black and white in hopes that I would focus more on my mark-making than color decisions.

Over and over again, blending, taking away, adding... until it got to a point that it was about to be filed in the trashcan. Once you get that far, you can't screw it up any further. I began letting the marks be the values. If you zoom in, the end result looks like the bird is covered with a blackboard. That's something different alright.

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Project VII-Day Twenty-Nine: Flower

Holy moly: One. Day. Left.

Project VII-Day Thirty: Grass

And that is a wrap! Day Thirty's photo was taken at Oliver Nature Park in Mansfield, TX earlier this summer. The labeling of each drawing evolved during the project. In the bottom left-hand corner is the sequence number of the drawing within the 30-day time frame and the location of where the reference photo was taken. My take away from this particular project was having the opportunity to spend more time with a special moment I had in nature. It allowed me to marvel at the intricacies of the plants and animals around us.

Project VII-Day Twenty-Eight: Beetles

I brake for beetles!!!

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