Wax Bloom

Feeling marginally better about this one now…

Autumn Still Life | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 9″ 

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I’m starting to get really burnt out on this one and had to force myself to get it to this point over lunch. (With apologies for the cruddy iPhone photo).

Autumn Still Life | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 12 x 9″

The next time I do a still life I have to be sure to not have so many repetitive details. The basket, the corn…its really just not that much fun. I feel like I’ve been drawing the same damned thing for days now.

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Slowly chipping away at the basket…

Autumn Still Life | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 9 x 12 

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Now with more corn:

Autumn Still Life | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 9″ 

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This basket is the new checkered shirt…

Autumn Still Life  | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 9″ 

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 Update (deleted the crap photo and the paragraph bemoaning it):

Here’s a moderately better photo:

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For all you smug bastards out there that said “oh sure, but can he draw a pumpkin?”.  That said I was afraid to draw a pumpkin, that I wasn’t man enough to draw a pumpkin! That I use italics with abandon!

Untitled | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 9 x 12″ 

 Take that!

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Starting to feel a bit better about this one:

The Lake | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 6 x 12″ 

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Most of the major elements of the figure are blocked in now – clearly they need some refinement but I think its working so far.

The Lake | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 6 x 12″ 

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It occurs to me that I haven’t the slightest notion of how to tackle the lake part of this drawing… my brief experiments with it thus far have not been fruitful.

The Lake | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 6 x 12″ 

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