EDiM - # 24 & 25

Last night I doubled up the challenge in order to catch up. I really wanted to do 24 & 26 together as there are some amazing fruit and veg stalls here in Khartoum, but it is just too hot to sketch outside. I took some reference photos on the way home, but they are not good enough to use; I think the bus was going too fast. I got this orange out of the fridge to draw for 24 and it rolled behind my glass of water creating fabulous colour distortians, so that is what I painted.

btw Despite taking the precaution of having a bottle of water next to me and the water pot apart, I still managed to dunk my brush in the drinking water. Is this due to my artistic side or just plain carelessness????

Laziness 2 - drawing 0

What a deadly combination... drawing because you feel you should, after all you promised yourself, and trying out a new pen, which you find to be scratchy and you don't like. That was me earlier.

I did find something I wanted to draw, just not then. In January I painted carrots, after looking in the market for some with their tops still on, so it was a nice surprise to take an orange out of the fridge and discover it had its beautiful glossy leaves attached. A perfect subject, shame I just didn't want to do it.

Attempt one "blah!". It looks like I have tried so hard to draw well, so it is overdrawn, but it was not taken far enough to rectify as I fought the compulsion to be lazy, and laziness won.

Photo: Inspiring subject, horrible new pen and attempt 1.

Update: After ignoring the earlier attempt for several hours, I thought I would try adding a colour wash to attempt 1  ha ha I forgot that I'd draw on proper ink paper... as it says on the cover "Very resistant. Extra smooth surface". The wash just sat looking murky and pathetic. It is now in the paper recycling bin.