Week 2-4
In periods of less time for drawing, I like to do these “week drawings”. This one lasted for almost three weeks , but I usually try to fill a page in one. It feels good to know I have an ongoing drawing that I can just keep working on anytime, without pressure to finish anything, and without sticking to a certain subject. And after a week or so, I try to tie the whole thing together with colour or crosshatching or something. Quite fun, and a good feeling to at least draw a little, even if I don´t have much time.
16 x 19 cm, Lamy Safari with Noodler´s Lexington grey ink and watercolours on Fabriano Rosapina paper (sketchbook page).
This is a great idea! Great page as well!!
Great idea and wonderful sketches. Very nicely done.
Terrific idea, with lots less pressure than feeling like you must finish a complete drawing each day!
Wonderful page, Nina. I really like the way you used the yellow. I love your idea.
I do this too when things are busy… many smaller drawings on one page tied together with color or text or hatching or overlapping subjects. Your page is lovely
Great idea!
What a great idea …. I hope you don’t mind if I steal it! These are wonderful little sketches – I love how you’ve added color to some and left others in black & white. nancy
Great idea! (Is there an echo in here?) Love the page. I mostly forget hatching when I am to do watercolors – I forget how good it looks. Wonderful page. Love the red blotch!
Charming, Nina, absolutely charming! And a good idea for those of us with limited self discipline…I need to just draw SOMETHING each day, not try to do a fully realized picture.
I LOVE these drawings and am going to try out your idea as well! deni……;)
What a great idea to compose a page over a week when you have a snippet of time. you did a great job of tying them all together, Very nice!
this is a great page. I like the yellow how you tied it all together.
nice.
A page filled with wonderful stuff – every little thing almost seems to pop out.
Oh Nina, Nina, Nina You just keep offering golden nuggets of learning! I love this idea – it completely takes the pressure off ‘finishing’ a page as a complete composition in a sitting. Thank you!!! Love the red blot
I love everything about this page! Partially colored, composition. I love how some things you’ve put in there are simple everyday things.
And this technique makes for such an interesting composite Most intriguing!!!!
Fantastic page! You first introduced me to this idea and your wonderful drawing has inspired me to give it another go.
What a great idea! Beautiful page!
Such a great drawing and a cool idea!
Lovely. I like the use of the yellow as a background color.
Fantastisk sida, tack för att du delar med dig av dina inspirerande skisser och målningar! Det var så kul när jag läste “about” för jag kände igen mig så totalt – förutom att jag valde den andra vägen till naturvetenskap och teknik och aldrig vågade satsa…. men senaste åren har jag i alla fall återupptäckt min kreativa sida. Det kanske aldrig är försent?