The challenge for June was to do a piece in black and white.
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Donna: When I heard Black and White my mind immediately thought "collage". Hmm... black and white, penguins, tuxedos, pianos, people, words, photos??? No, songbirds, musical notes, sheet music and of course polka dots.
Song Bird 8x10 collage
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Carmen: I love roots and the patterns they make. I was just in the Smoky Mountains and saw these beautiful roots spreading across a ledge. This challenge gave me an excuse to draw them in pen and ink.
Carmen Beecher
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Then I decided to do a black-and-white oil painting, so I chose a subject that had little color to begin with, Ruby Beach on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. This is a tiny 5x7 painting.
Carmen Beecher
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Carol: For this challenge, I chose three small paintings, done in black and white on a red support. I allowed small amounts of the red to show through, which I believe, gives an interesting warmth to the paintings.
These paintings were all done from photographs of flapper movie stars.
Carol Schiff
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I started drawing the cabin free hand. REALLY free hand.
Fay: Several years ago, a distant cousin sent me this picture of the old Dressler family homestead. My great, great, great grandfather, Thomas Wilson Richardson, married Margaret Dressler in this house in 1860. My great, great grandfather was born here. I was inspired.
I started drawing the cabin free hand. REALLY free hand.
I decided it wasn't dark enough, so I darkened it up a little and added some sparse trees.
The final sketch below is a try at graphite transfer. I wish I had known about this technique BEFORE I spent hours trying get the cabin above in proper prospective. This discovery may have change my whole approach to art! |
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Kathy: Below is my response to the challenge. I love drawing with Micron Pens on good watercolor paper. This drawing was inspired by a leaf found in a cluster of similar leaves in an open field. I was on a one month artist's vacation in a beautiful cabin at the Furnace Mountain Zen Center in Kentucky. Surrounded by woods, I got to hike, paint and draw every day. I thought the leaf was just a beautiful dandelion leaf. There was no stalk or flower. But later I checked online and through several field guides, and it is most likely a young leaf from a milk or bull thistle.
Kathy Garvey
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••••••••••••••••• Jean: I love black and white. My sketchbooks are full of ink/Pitt pen drawings. Black and white forces you to simplify to achieve tonal variation. The drawing below is of my son Chris, underwater. He loved swimming. I found an old snapshot of him from one of those throwaway, underwater cameras. So I sketched him!  ozworks22@cfl.rr.com |
I just loved this challenge too!! They are all good but this one was so diverse and so interesting.
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