TAKE THE CHALLENGE!

Click on the title and you will go directly to Donna Zagotta's blog. She created a great challenge for herself and invited all of us to join in. The idea is to do full figures using only a brush and paint, creating a silouette. She is committed to doing 1,000 drawings. I am committing to doing at least 10 a day indefinitely. I started out using an old phone book and old paint in a palette I wanted to clean out. This is a great way to use up paint. I filled in about 25 pages of the phone book and then remembered that I have this watercolor paper that is too thin for finished paintings. The long format is great for a series of figures. After I filled the page, I decided to go back in and do a contour line drawing on top. The images are from a GAP ad filled with small figures in very enthusiastic poses. Lots of fun for this project.

Doing these figures is a great way to improve your figures skills and a wonderful warm up to get in the mood for painting for the day. Hope you join in the fun.