Pastels - Class #4
Jun. 11th, 2004 02:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwangoWe were supposed to bring a picture of something to copy. I brought my wolf and tiger calendars again, with the intention of drawing more critters. However, I decided at the last minute to try flowers again before "giving up," and selected a picture of an orchid from the stuff the instructor brought to the class.
It went fairly well. Other people were more impressed by it than I was, but I thought it was going okay. This was another case of people thinking that I was done before I did...I would have done a little more to it. This was the first piece that I finished since that first bowl of fruit. Unfortunately, I created a ludicrous amount of blue and purple chalk dust while coloring the background, and probably ruined one of my favorite pairs of jeans, which I was stupid enough to wear to the class. Bleh.
I was encouraged again to enter stuff into the student art show, but I'm resisting. I'd have to frame things and decide which of them I wanted to try to sell, and for how much. In addition to the framing costs, it's something like $5 for every piece you put in. I can just imagine paying to have everything framed and entered, and then not sell any of them. I don't think I've got anything sale-worthy that I actually want to sell...except maybe the orchid from this class, though I'm still not sure anyone would want to buy it. I guess we'll see if I generate anything else between now and the show.
It went fairly well. Other people were more impressed by it than I was, but I thought it was going okay. This was another case of people thinking that I was done before I did...I would have done a little more to it. This was the first piece that I finished since that first bowl of fruit. Unfortunately, I created a ludicrous amount of blue and purple chalk dust while coloring the background, and probably ruined one of my favorite pairs of jeans, which I was stupid enough to wear to the class. Bleh.
I was encouraged again to enter stuff into the student art show, but I'm resisting. I'd have to frame things and decide which of them I wanted to try to sell, and for how much. In addition to the framing costs, it's something like $5 for every piece you put in. I can just imagine paying to have everything framed and entered, and then not sell any of them. I don't think I've got anything sale-worthy that I actually want to sell...except maybe the orchid from this class, though I'm still not sure anyone would want to buy it. I guess we'll see if I generate anything else between now and the show.
