brushandpencils : A few more Spring Birds

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

A few more Spring Birds

These quick bird sketches are done with the help of several fieldguides.

I find it is a good way when returning from an interesting excursion to help me remember the characteristics I've seen but seem to otherwise soon forget again.

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Creative Endeavors

My marks on the pages of my sketchbook/journal help me to become more aware of my surroundings; a visual diary and sequential record of days of my life. Sometimes I'm working from my car, an "onsite studio". Almost always these drawings are "drawn on location".

My knitting and my weaving are other ways for me to explore color and texture; to use my hands to create and build up. Again the choices are a sequential record. The inches, feet and yards of cloth become a "journal", similar to the way pages eventually make up a book. I prefer to weave the design as I go along rather than to have it all figured out ahead of time.