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The Year Of Drawing Adventurously – Week 20: Bug

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Following the chart to 52 drawings this year.

The scarab beetle was sacred in ancient Egypt. (I am not an Ancient Egyptian, just to be clear). The god Khepri, who was Ra as the rising sun, was represented by a scarab beetle-headed man. Khepri would roll the sun across the sky in the same way the scarab (or dung beetle) would roll dung into a ball into which they laid their eggs so that as the larvae emerged they were surrounded by a food source. (I know, gross, but nature’s recyclers, right?) It was this birth and cycle of renewal that corresponded to the birth of the sun each morning. Here is my scarab beetle:

The Year Of Drawing Adventurously – Week 19: Eyes

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Following the chart to 52 drawings this year.

I picked up my drawing pencils in 2016 after a very long hiatus. I had written a kids science fiction story and thought it would be cool to have illustrations. Long story short, my first attempts were terrible. In addition, I couldn’t visualize exactly what I wanted to sketch. Back to the drawing board… literally. In order to improve and to teach myself anew, I started using photography for inspiration. I have a coffee table book of Man Ray’s stunning images, so I started paging through. “Glass Tears” is one of his most famous photos and is part of a large collection of photographic art owned by Sir Elton John. I had the privilege of seeing this collection in person last year when it was on exhibition at The Tate in London. That’s me in the selfie reflection:

I decided to draw this again because it features ‘eyes’ so prominently. Here is my “Glass Tears” sketch:

Painting (14) Lone Gull

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One cool thing about teaching yourself to paint with acrylics is that you can reuse already painted on canvases. That means each time you try something that doesn’t turn out so good, the canvas is not wasted. Trust me, you will waste a lot of canvases in the beginning. A few weeks back, my talented photographer friend, Son of a Beach posted a photo of a lone gull in the sunset and I just knew I wanted to try to paint it. I had just the thing… one of my very first attempts was full of all the colors I would be using for the new painting so no worries about bleeding through. Here’s the result: