Day 247Another less than meditative drawing session as ants attacked again and the flies were out in force. I nearly abandoned this drawing in frustration with the way the graphitone pencils seem to resist the watercolour paper I had but I decided to wash over it with water and it looked better so I continued - I quite like it. These pears are in front of the National Gallery - they are about 5 feet high, a dark brown metal. Amazingly they never seem to get grafittied. 12 km cycle
Before I read the words, I thought "she saw these pears on a walk? What, did she go to the farmers market?" But no, these are BIG pears! I love the effect you attained. Glad you persevered!
ReplyDeleteThat's funny. I thought that you had drawn real pears but I thought they looked rather wooden or sculptural and then you said they were sculptures!
ReplyDeleteI also thought they were real, They dont give the impression of being big. Nicely done. I dont think I have problems with ants but the flies are awful.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why the sculptor decided to do pears? Couldn't he imagine something else?
ReplyDeleteNice drawing of course.
Ants are driving me crazy. Peceli picked up a spray can and the ants soon dropped from their tracking up the kitchen walls. Tiny ants. I think the spray can he used was really for tobacco smells - not that we have much of that with little notices stuck about our loungeroom saying tabu to cigarette smoking!
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I think the water has really added a lovely metallic sheen
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