I registered in a Suzanne Lamoreaux coloured pencil workshop and went to the first one last Thursday at Artra in Edmonton. It was a quiet, intense evening and at the time, I had no idea how much I was absorbing and learning. She gently took us through an introduction to monochromatic drawing with white pencil on black paper. I don't think I've done this before, which is kind of surprising. But I've gotta say, that white pencil moving across the deep black paper just kind of got a grip on me and I was swept away by the soft magic, the shadows and light, the image emerging from beneath my hand. I was astounded, mesmerized. Homework was to finish the exercise we were working on (from a photo of the face of a young girl) and then to find something else to draw. So I went for easy, and drew a sheep. But when you're hungry, you have to eat and I was just itching to try something else, and maybe something a bit more challenging - like a portrait of my husband. I'm so tickled with the result. Of both. What fun. It's only taken my whole lifetime to learn how to draw. But it seems, finally, to be coming together.
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robin
2/2/2011 02:26:48 pm
fantastic! such "living" likeness and i want to meet that sheep!
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My name is Yvonne Rezek. This is a blog about what my hands are up to. Mostly sketches and drawings, some of my pottery, maybe even some knitting.
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