This month’s Virtual Sketch subject is a great photo of a farmhouse on a cold winter day. It made me feel cold just to draw it, and after ten years of living in Michigan, reminds me of why I live in Texas. Beautiful but hard to bear for six months.
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Pencil sketch – about 2.5 hrs, mechanical pencil on card stock.
21 responses so far ↓
1 Rose Welty // Dec 13, 2008 at 11:06 am
Regina,
Just looking at your drawing makes me cold! Well done.
2 Jo Castillo // Dec 13, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Boy, that does look chilly. Very nice. I like the way you handled the bare tree and trunks. Nice.
3 Carol Edan // Dec 14, 2008 at 3:29 am
Beautiful details in this….especial the tree on the rights set off by the dark ferns….
Carol
4 Sandy // Dec 14, 2008 at 8:22 am
This take is fantastic, I love it!
5 Regina // Dec 14, 2008 at 9:13 am
Rose – So we can remember to look at this next August and feel cooler, right? Thanks!
6 Regina // Dec 14, 2008 at 9:15 am
Jo – Once again, I had great plans for doing a pastel, but didn’t have time. I always like doing pencil drawings though. Thank you!
7 Regina // Dec 14, 2008 at 9:18 am
Carol & Sandy – Thank you both! I had to fix some perspective problems I finally saw, but like it better now.
8 Stacy // Dec 14, 2008 at 9:54 am
I really like your drawing. It definitely has a frosty feel to it. I like the sideways strokes you used for the leaves on the front tree and the way the tree in the back is silhoutted against the evergreens.
9 Kathleen // Dec 14, 2008 at 11:57 am
Love love the tree on the right – the buildings are well done too
10 Sydney // Dec 14, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Very nicely done! I like the details in the buildings and trees.
11 Regina // Dec 14, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Stacy – Thank you! I kind of experimented on the various strokes as I went along and enjoyed drawing this, but the buildings were sure a challenge.
12 Regina // Dec 14, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Kathleen – thank you very much! Those buildings and windows were tricky, weren’t they? I love your pastel!
13 Jan // Dec 15, 2008 at 7:48 am
Nice. Nice.Nice. Such a lovely rendered drawing.
14 Andy // Dec 15, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Great drawing Regina, with strong composition and style .
15 leslie // Dec 15, 2008 at 1:20 pm
That looks so COLD!!
I really like the negative space tree, too.
You like to play with pencil, and I can see it!
16 Regina // Dec 15, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Sydney – Thank you. As an ex-drafter, it’s hard not to put in details. But you’d think buildings would be easier..
Jan – I love doing pencil drawings. Therapy.
Andy – thank you, I appreciate your comments. Stacy’s photo did the composition though.
Leslie – Yes, it looks cold….. and depressing. That is how I remember ten years in Michigan. The negative space was an accident, but I kept it. Thank you, oh Queen of the pencil! You rule!
17 leslie // Dec 16, 2008 at 11:47 am
Accident? I don’t see an accident. It was an “on purpose”, and very effective.
The temp here today is in the 50’s and I am shivvvvering. I’m a sissy.
18 Joanna // Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23 am
I’m just catching up and have to say: brrrrrrr!!!
19 Regina // Dec 19, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Joanna – Yes, I agree! So glad to be here (most of the time…)
20 laura // Jan 2, 2009 at 7:46 am
Lovely drawing. I especially like the positive-negative treatment of the trees on the right!
21 Regina // Jan 7, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Laura – Thank you very much! Sometimes that happens by accident, but it can also make a complex combination of items easier to draw and to view.
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