Day 20- Candlestick

Tonight I sketched a candlestick while watching the movie Elektra with my dad and husband. My mom went to bed early, I think she was probably tired from driving up from Vegas. I am so excited my parents are visiting, and I think it's cool they get to see my side of the picture a day blog, the part where I actually draw a picture every day, and they get to see the process of me drawing and how long it actually takes. It was neat. SO here is today, a candlestick. I have a pair of these. Steve and I found them at a thrift store in Sparks after we bought our new house. They were only $.97 each! This same thrift store is where I found my pottery barn pillows with down inserts form $2.97 each! A steal if you ask me. This one probably took me 1-2 hours while we were watching the movie. Probably closer to 2 because I don't remember all of the movie which means I was not paying attention because I was drawing.

picture taken later at different angle and with different lighting than when I drew it

Day 7- Break Day

Creating every day is exhausting, I forgot how long it takes to draw an actual good picture and how much effort I have to put into it if I'm actually applying myself. I decided that since the Creators of our world got to take a break on the 7th day, then the creator of this blog and these pictures gets to take a break too. But that's not quite as much fun, so I decided on the 7th day, I'm going to post a picture from an old sketchbook. Some will be from high school, some from college, some doodles, some assignments from former art classes, some from sketches not associate with school.
Today's picture I did in high school. This is still one of my favorite sketches. It is a reflection, I believe the back side of a spoon.

I also took my mom's suggestion and just took photographs of my sketches this week. It was very time consuming to scan them. I think some detail is lost, but not a whole ton, I thing the bigger difference is just the color quality of the picture, it appears much darker than actual sketch which is drawn on a white sketchpad.