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| Seven Sunflowers |
But most of all I love to draw sunflowers.
It's been a while since I've sat down to do any drawing. When I was a commercial screen printer, I drew every day. I drew anything from a customer's product to a cat for my mail order catalogue. It was production of the highest degree.
Of course, before those years there was Art School at the York Academy of Arts. Drawing was our foundation. Your work was only as good as the drawing beneath it...whether the finished piece be a painting, a sculpture, a print. This now applies to digital work. A lack of drawing skills is amplified a hundred fold in the digital realm.
And before that I drew because I loved it.
So in a sense, The Doodle Swap Project has brought me full circle.
The Project is similar to trading ATC's but the main focus is doodling/drawing/illustration. The size requirement is the same as an ATC. After registration and the cards are complete, you send them off to the list of names and addresses provided. Mine are ready to go to Alabama, Maryland, Utah, Massachusetts, Washington, and Pennsylvania.
The substrate is a standard ATC card. I used a Ranger's Inkssentials manila card. I drew in pencil. I then used chalk pastels to colour the drawing. The center of the sunflower is Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamped with a piece of fibrefill I found.
As I have had years of production work under my belt, I did each card at the same time...building up the drawings on each card, layer by layer.
I am looking forward to getting my Sunflowers in the mail. I am also looking forward to receiving art in the mail.
Thanks again, Doodle Swap Project. You reminded me how much I really love to draw.
