I didn’t finish my drawing last night, I sat down saw what was on screen and froze, it felt too big, too complicated and I had no idea how to draw it. Turns out I’m intimidated by peppers…
Before we started I had grand plans to make a big bold drawing with some fresh drawing inks and maybe some wax crayon resist. For once I was still in the studio so had every resource at my finger tips. But this set up didn’t lend itself to that approach and my brain wasn’t actually in a place to achieve a big bold drawing so I froze.
Instead of continuing to panic ( a lesson here, never plan how you’re going to draw something you haven’t seen), I grabbed a pencil, started in the left hand corner and sketched across the page. Still a bit uncertain about that big central pepper I went back to my comfort zone and drew the undulating patterns in the tea towel. Long story short I got very into the checks which is why I didn’t manage to finish!
Spending time on the checks did warm me up enough to attempt some more of the set up, perhaps I’ll come back to this one later this week, or perhaps it will stay unfinished as a reminder to not count your chickens before the start of a zoom drawing class.
One final (surprising) thing to note, Crayola crayons don’t seem to create a wax resist with drawing inks. Not sure if it was the paper, or the strength of the ink or because crayola have taken all of the wax out of their wax crayons? I will experiment further and report back - the very dark onion is the result of learning this lesson too late.
The set up is below for anyone wanting to join in, it was photographed in the light whereas we were drawing in the dark last nigh so the shadows were much stronger. Good luck with the red pepper!