OK, I painted two different versions of Rosie this morning. Right now I just sort of want to play around and create her in different mediums and different colors to see what I like. I do kind of like my monochromatic Rosie with a bit of red. I've drawn her like that before with graphite and colored pencil, but I like this watercolor and colored pencil effect more. I know I've seen writing at forums about drawings that are monochromatic with a bit of color and people have found them pretentious. I guess I don't know why. This didn't come from a place of pretension. I just started out not knowing what I was going to do (after doing the color version of running rhino), and this is what happened. Running Rosie is done in the color palette that I most often use for her. Standing Rosie is more of a departure for me. Along with her limited color palette, she's a bit beefier than usual. I think I may have gone overboard with her solidity, but I think she's cute that way. Running Rosie is built more like the rhino in the photograph that I used. She's a bit less zaftig (I've been dying to use that word to describe a
rhino):)
2 comments:
I love both rosies and would never use the term pretentious on a rhino but zoftig---now that's a word for rhinos and beefy--would that be rhinoy in the case of rhinos? I heart them both and will look forward to seeing more. I hope that your celebration of earth hour is going well. We are not joining in on the fun tonight. the TV is on, dryer is running, lights on, computer running, guess we are rather-anti-earth-houring at the moment. What podcasts did you listen to??????
I love both of your drawings and am partial to zaftig Rosie I think although standing Rosie is more like me. Zaftig Rosie is a fiesty little rhino with her pink galoshes.
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