Chives have beautiful little puff ball flowers that I ways thought were a lavender purple. But when you look up close they are actually composed of a collection of many little blue-white flowers radiating out from the center stalk. Each petal on the little flowers have a purplish-red vein that runs up the center of [...]
So this week I’m really going to have to draw some lettuce. Our CSA, Spiral Path sends us lots and lots of lettuce, but I haven’t drawn any yet because it seems like a rather visually uninteresting subject. So the question is how do you make lettuce interesting?
We got 2 whole quarts if organic strawberries in out first CSA delivery. plus my little strawberry patch has offered up quiet a few pickings as well. At first this drawing/painting gave me a hard time as I wasn’t sure how to tackle the highlights on the flesh. They were So shiny! Also the indentations [...]
Spring onions (aka: green onions or scallions) Here’s my first completed drawing for my CSA Art Challenge! I actually started with the strawberries thinking the lovely red colors would be fun to draw, but the highlights and shadows created by the inset of the seeds in the flesh was throwing me off. So I decided [...]
Yesterday was our first delivery from Spiral Path our CSA, and the start of my personal Art Challenge/Art Project, Yeah!!! As I mentioned in a precious post I’m going to try and draw, paint or photograph at least one of everything they give us. And considering how much produce they give us and the variety [...]
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Tips on drawing lettuce (or other wrinkled surface like fabric) surface
May 31, 2012 · Add Comment
So drawing lettuce is hard. Sure it looks like it is all one color, but its kind of like trying to draw fabric. All the wrinkles mean that you really need to pay attention to the changes in gradients. The trick to drawing something like lettuce, (or fabric) which has lots of wrinkles is to [...]