April in Paris

There are some things that I feel an urgent need to draw because it is such a challenge for me. There is a voice in my head that urks me and tells me that if I could draw XX successfully I would finally be able to call myself an artist.
One example of XX is waves. Waves absolutely fascinate me as they are almost impossible to draw. Cave men must have had water but you don’t see waves on the cave walls do you? They stuck to easy things like bison and men. Wave contours are so graceful and organic but so hard to translate with a pencil. So here is my attempt to draw a wave. It is not my first attempt but my first somewhat decent one– ever.

Some other extreme challenges for me besides waves are: trees, umbrellas and bikes. It seems like anything with a sprouting spokes or branches. I just realized that roulette wheels and ferris wheels are also on my list of challenges.

Very Think Pink. I did this portrait on commission for a young girl’s dressing table.

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2009 is coming to an end. I will remember this year as the year I caught my breath. I feel older and wiser now. I have a sneaking suspicion that 2010 is going to be a fruitful year for me professionally. . . . tic toc tic toc…