A Year of Making Art, Day 107: Fulfilling Our Unfulfilled Dreams

August 4, 2007  Day 107

Yesterday afternoon I managed to pick up Mike and take him to swim lessons.  It was the last day, and he got a glowing report card.  When we got back, he went for a bike ride with Adrian, and then fixed a flashlight that Adrian was having trouble with.  What is it that makes us want to see our kids and grandkids excel at everything?  Passing on the genes, I guess, and fulfilling our own unfulfilled dreams.

In this morning's drawing, I used the Pitt brush pens to make a background of graduated colors in the tans and orange-brown family.  The Faber Castell calligraphy pens allowed stronger accent lines and some vivid highlights.  I used the brush pens again for filling in some areas, building up the composition around the initial grid.

  Drawing #108  11" x 14"

I'm experimenting with a new canvas, using some of what I learned in Culmination and some from Sleight of Mind Three.

  Canvas 17  40" x 40"

(Note:  There is a gap between the dates I'm writing and posting because I had to give myself time to get ahead in case we travel and I'm not able to post.)