Plant Life

I haven't found a spare moment for blogging recently so I'm about to post three drawings at one time. This first one is from a week or so ago. My drawing teacher collected a bunch of clippings and plants from Monroe Park in downtown Richmond and brought them in for us to draw. One of the most challenging parts in drawing the still life was that the plants were not so still. Within 30 minutes they had all drooped and changed positions. So in the end the plant did not look my drawing but rather what it looked like at the beginning of the three hour studio class. The other major challenge with this piece was using graphite. I am not very confident using graphite yet, the paper bag post earlier in the year was the first graphite drawing I had ever done--making this the second!