It pays to tidy up

Decided it was well past time to reorganize my desk/studio area and found a couple of quick sketches I had forgotten about. Given that I woke up to snow falling fast and furious, I appreciated the cheery nature of my find.



Thankfully the sun came out, the snow has completely melted and it's like the whole thing never happened LOL.

Kickin Up My Heels

Kicking Up my Heels(c)2015 Susan Langdon
 8x10 in on 140 lb CP Strathmore paper
 

Considering I'm a diehard Crocs girl, I'm not sure where the inspiration for these came from but I sure had a ball painting them.

I like the right shoe better than the left but I think that is only because of the foreshortened perspective, something I struggle with but admittedly am getting better at the more I draw it.

I'm really pleased with this, my first attempt at leopard print. it doesn't really show here but in the original there's a fair bit of texture so that the material looks more touchable. All that's left to do is get them matted up and packaged to go to Nan's shop for her April Fools Sale. Who knows, they just might follow somebody home LOL.

It's beginning to feel like Spring

Poured Daisies (c)2015 Susan Langdon
7x5 in on 140 lb CP Strathmore paper

Temps are rising, snow is melting and it truly feels like winter is letting go. My personal challenge to do something art wise every day for a month is definitely working.

Some days it's new work and other times it's searching through my orphan drawer and taking out a half finished piece and working on it. That's what happened here.

This was a poured piece that I did last year, oddly enough during this same period of ennui. It was okay but didn't feel finished, yet I didn't know what it needed. This year, apparently, it needed a little ink work.

It's different for me but that's okay - I'm in a mood to break out of my norm and try new things.

Finally

It's been many, many weeks but finally I've put something down on paper that makes me happy. This is just the colour test done on scrap paper for a sketch I've already drawn but it pleased me enough to put it here.

I've also challenged myself to do art every day for a month in order to push through my own creative block. Sometimes I just need to get out of my own way, as a dear friend reiterated for me last night, and stop making things more complicated than they need to be LOL!

So Day #1 complete.