The Fly….Takes Time

You’d think I’d know better by now….but NO!  When I do faces….I always think I have to “pencil in" the pieces and parts….you know, like outline the shape of the lips here.  Well, this child doesn’t have lipstick on so it was quite unnecessary.  Oh-evie!



Moved on to the better stuff!  The folds in the cap and the goggles.



Didn’t have the color I was looking for in my colored pencil stash for the blue in the cap…..but….I can make my own colors with watercolors!  Two points for the watercolor department. Yeah!



With shopping and decorating it didn’t allow me as much time as I’d like.  So, I'm glad I got this far.  I'll be needing major help with that water and class is tomorrow!  Yea baby!



Now, I get to enjoy my family and my tree 

The Fly….Takes Form

My absolute favorite thing to draw….is swimmers!   I almost didn’t attempt this picture…because it’s so wide…..and it’s hard to see the details in the body.  But my Art teacher really liked the composition which encouraged me.



I want to do this right….so I put the watercolor pencils away and re-acquainted myself with those beloved colored pencils.



It’s like coming home!!  Drawing on this illustration board is sweet, paper type makes a huge difference!



I plan on doing the water in watercolor.  The initial bottom layer of the figure was a watercolor wash.  Much faster working with a wash than starting off with colored pencil as the base.  Thumbs up for that trick