Monday, April 5, 2010

Getting through...

ink sketches of arms
{ink sketches from Bridgeman's book}


Hello,

Have you ever felt at times that the best thing to do is just to get through? Today was about getting through a list of painting and drawing objectives that were put on hold to get through the weekend...

Some of the craziness was from Saturday...

Where S. and I were up early to rent a "billy goat" lawn vacuum to tackle the several years accumulation of sugar gum balls that pepper our half-acre yard. We decided to try this out after spending most of the previous Saturday raking up these pesky balls and only getting through a quarter of the yard, we thought there had to be a machine that would make the task faster and easier... well, it turns out good old elbow grease is the way to go, because I ended up having to rake in front of the "billy goat" being pushed by S. This fancy machine just helped us from having to lean over and bag the sugar gum balls and used up gas to boot...

Today was full of art tasks, everything that was put on hold over the weekend. Including drawing with a steel quill pen, like the sketches above, and working on a 16x20 painting that was started in late February. This current painting needs a little more work in areas, and maybe a glaze or two... though I am hopeful that it is nearing completion...

WIP - detail of a painting
{here is a detail of the painting}
Lingering painting projects weigh me down some, I always look forward to completing a painting and starting a new project, so as a painting begins to be more complete the more eager I am to finish it. Today was a long day in the studio and tomorrow will be also, though hopefully I will have something new to share with you soon.
Until then, thanks for spending time with me and have a wonderful evening!
Liz

2 comments:

Jala Pfaff said...

Your copied sketches are awesome. How can you draw with ink and not make any mistakes in proportion??!! I'm impressed.
What the heck are sugar gum balls? I'm picturing little kids walking by and littering your yard with candy.

eLIZabeth Floyd said...

Hi Jala, It turns out that I was calling the tree the wrong name, but I guess it goes by sugar gum as well, but more commonly the seeds for the tree are called "sweet gum balls", here is a link to a photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruthalice43/3233418287/, they look so cool on the tree, but make a terrible mess on the ground...