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I've signed up to take my first ever art class (drawing) in Jan. :)
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I predict an A+
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I hope this one doesn't get canceled!
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My latest drawing:

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(the scan came out kinda crappy)

A companion piece to this one I did last year:
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Bonus points if you know what it is. :)
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Very nice, very well defined.

I don't know what kind of flower it is, though....
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Is it the center part of a magnolia blossom? The part that falls off the tree after the petals are gone?
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The leaf looks like a sweetgum. I'm not sure about the top drawing.

In either case, GORGEOUS!
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Primula Baggins wrote:Is it the center part of a magnolia blossom? The part that falls off the tree after the petals are gone?
Bonus points for Prim!! :kiss:
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Post by Voronwë the Faithful »

Prim knows everything. Didn't you know that already, yov?

Great job on the drawings, yov. You definitely are talented, and you're definitely developing that talent. Good on you!
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Thanks, V-dude and the rest of ya'lls. :love:
To those curious, here's the fruit-thingy in question (this is what it looks like when it's dried up):

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yovargas wrote:
Primula Baggins wrote:Is it the center part of a magnolia blossom? The part that falls off the tree after the petals are gone?
Bonus points for Prim!! :kiss:
No, no bonus points. Mr. Prim and I have one of those big magnolias in our back yard. We spend many early summer evenings sitting in its delightful shade, sipping artistically constructed beverages, and perusing great literature, and periodically shrieking and swearing as these huge things drop from the tree without warning and spill our drinks and conk us on the head.

But :kiss: back, of course! And of course, I'd never have known it if your drawing had not been so fearsomely accurate.

Small spaniels also like chewing on those things, BTW.


ETA: And then there was the time a houseguest thought we had a dead rabbit on our back lawn, and it was just a pile of those enormous magnolia petals.
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The Prim family sure knows how to live!! :D :D :D :D
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Boy howdy, yeah. :blackeye:

Your technique really is wonderful, yov.
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Thanks. :hug:
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yov, I love your drawings. Yes, they are accurate and detailed, but there is something more: an alluring, ethereal quality that makes me want to enter their world.
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That's a wonderful compliment. :) :hug:

Yes, I do try to be painfully "realistic" in my pencil drawings, but I don't want the end result to be a clinical photocopy of reality. I'd like them to have a some sense of...hmm, wonder perhaps? Otherwise, it'd just be technical showing off and not (hopefully) interesting art. :)
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Well, this mama can't help but show off. Here's the drawing Katie (14 y.o.) just finished:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3 ... 1066880835


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yovargas wrote:My latest drawing:

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(the scan came out kinda crappy)
IS this for sale? Or entered in a contest somewhere?

The display of skill is amazing. It's like it's among us but not of us, if that makes sense. Something about the lighting, and the way it's off-center on the page. If you'd centered it, it would be more technical than artistic, but as it is it's sort of drawing/inviting you in, a gatepost of sorts.
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Lalaith wrote:Well, this mama can't help but show off. Here's the drawing Katie (14 y.o.) just finished:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3 ... 1066880835


:sunny:
That's gorgeous! And her expression is just soo.... anticipatory?
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River wrote:IS this for sale? Or entered in a contest somewhere?
No and no but I'm definitely open to both if they stumble on to my lap. :)

And yes, Lali's girl has talents!! :thumbsup:
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