In light of the last two posts, I give you...
Doodlebug and I were drawing together this afternoon, while Junebug caught up on his long winters' nap. D had been rifling through his bookcase, when he came across some NASA postcards we'd ordered back in Kindergarten for a project. He brought them to me and we picked one each to draw. I picked Buzz Aldrin, as photographed by Neil Armstrong.
It's such a cool photo, with all the reflections in the face shield, including Armstrong, the American flag and the lunar module. What I really love is how the horizon of the lunar surface lines up with the horizon line in the face shield.
I did this as a contour drawing for the most part. Not a BLIND contour, but I tried to not lift my pen as I traced around the image. I love the quality of the line when I do this, and it always makes me wonder why I don't do it more often. It is so freeing to use cheap-o pens on cheap-o paper - to draw with and as a child - simply and with reckless abandon.
Lesson learned.
Yes, this is way cool! I bet the "bugs" like it, too. I'm glad you shared it!
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I know how fun it is to let my inner six-year-old go and play. This is great Diahn.
ReplyDeleteOh, this is great! Do we get to see D's, too?
ReplyDeleteSounds like you two had a nice afternoon and you made a very fine drawing. Yeah, do we get to see D's?
ReplyDeleteI agree, the quality of line has a fantastic effect. I like this. I'm into ink drawings, myself.. keep up the creativity :)
ReplyDeleteIt's outta this world! Really nice. I bet your boys love it when you draw with them.
ReplyDeletethis is fantastic.
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