Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Mosaic Flowers

I'm not very good at drawing still life of any kind. In fact, they turn out quite cartoonish. So, I decided to create flowers of my own. 

Initially, I drew the petals thinking they'd be leaves of some kind, but when I arranged them in a circular pattern, they looked quite good. Then I added the leaves in the back, but I didn't know I'd color them as leaves. I had considered coloring them as a second row of petals. Maybe I need to create another one with that plan in mind.

When you see a drawing like this, where I'm creating patterns in blank spaces between the main objects, I'm trying to figure some things out in my mind. I was mulling over many, many options in my mother's care, and I didn't know, which one was the right choice. As I continued to fill in the blank spaces, my mind cleared more and more, and I whittled my choices down to two.

Though I see some mistakes I've made in this drawing, whenever I see this piece, I think of the solution it ultimately brought to me.



This piece actually looks much better in the original. Maybe I need to try to work on it more in Pixlr.com.

Have a great day.


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