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| A little doodle |
Out of the many doodles in my sketchbook, I'm not sure why this child in a raincoat suddlenly caught my attention. But, I've been trying to think of some designs (past, present, and future) that I could have made into prints this spring.
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| Ink with a little cloud - works alright with this drawing but didn't hold much weight in color |
Once I figured out the initial composition, I did a couple of studies. I could picture many things so, at first, I really wasn't sure if I was going to do a moody pen and ink, tried-n-true ink with watercolor wash, or ??? Originally, I didn't have a background at all, but I felt that the child needed to be looking "at" something. The cloud started off small, but once I saw it in color, the cloud needed to be more substantial. I can't decide if it's too big now, but it seems to work.
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| The end result in gouache and color pencil |
But, as I've learned in the past few years, a drawing or painting will let me know what it needs - what materials are best suited for it and what direction it will move in. It reminds me of what I need to do day-to-day when it comes to "listening" to God - I may have one vision of how my life should unfold, but if I take care to observe and address the situations that arise each day, then I tend to encounter the unexpected on my way to a beautiful outcome. Sometimes (a lot of the time) it's scary, aggravating, or delightful, but always worth it.
Ultimately, this image called for the softness of gouache washes and the detail that could be achieved with color pencil. I don't know how I could have envisioned it any other way.
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