These aren’t animals
I sometimes draw things that -gasp- aren’t animals. As a matter of fact, I really like to draw skylines and architecture using blind contour (more on that some other time). Thankfully I’m not setting out to actually build anything using my drawings as a blueprint, because they definitely wouldn’t be structurally sound.
Today I made my foray into lighthouses. I did my weekly “hey look what I drew” type of post in a local Facebook group that has been giving me really great feedback each time I’ve posted. Today a member of the group messaged me to ask if I make lighthouses.
Technically I haven’t ever drawn a lighthouse in my life, but YES, I certainly make lighthouses. Also technically I’ve never drawn any of the things I’ve drawn, until I’ve drawn them. And now I have. So what was I talking about?
Right. Lighthouses!
Quick search of the interwebs helped me narrow it down to two to draw for the day: Nubble light in Maine, and Annisquam in Gloucester, Massachusetts (and no, I didn’t spell Gloucester correctly on my first attempt).
I came up with two versions of Nubble, because why not? Here is the first:
Seriously, if you look up Nubble Light on the internet, you’ll see the same exact photo about sixty thousand times. It’s kind of like the Pink house in Newburyport, where everyone flocks for the perfect photo. Sixty. Thousand. Times. Look up the Pink house in Newburyport and you’ll see what I mean. It’s a cool place though, I’m not disagreeing!
Back to Nubble… Here is the second version from today:
I don’t love doing multiple works of the same subject, because the routes begin to feel too rehearsed and less spontaneous after the first pass. The fun part, though, is seeing how the end results vary from one to the next, even though I was looking at the same subject or image.
Now let’s move our tour to Gloucester (nope, didn’t spell it right that time, either. Thank you, spell check). Here is Annisquam lighthouse:
Each of these masterpieces is 6” x 6”, because sometimes it’s just easier to work in a small space. But now I’m off to Amazon to re-order my favorite 6” x 6” paper since this was my last piece.
So what did we learn today? Um. I like drawing animals, but non-animal subject matter is a-ok too. And no, I didn’t yet learn how to spell Gloucester without the helpful red squiggly line underneath it pushing me to get rid of some letters.