Walk Sixty-five – Drawing in the dark
A busy day, so I only managed my walk after getting back from London at 10:30. I don’t know how the antipodean branch of ‘One Mile From Home’ manage all this night-time drawing. The colour was noted down and added in Photoshop.
posted by Julie Oakley at Wednesday, June 28, 2006
9 Comments:
I love the style of this -- and as always, admire your commitment to your walking. I will be home from Kentucky tomorrow and will post the sketches I've done on my walks in this part of the world.
Beautiful! Your work is just phenomenal and so inspiring! I'm considering trying something similar and wonder how much time you allow generally spennd on the painting/drawing on your walks. I tend to get lost in time when I'm drawing which can be a problem.
Thank you Hashi. I hope it hasn't been too onerous this time.
Jana yes I get lost at times. There's a drawing on my other blog of the new Damien Hirst sculpture which I drew while my friend and I were waiting for someone. I swear I spent 5 minutes on it. Whereas when I asked her how long I'd been she reckoned it was nearer 10 minutes. The time I allow for the one mile pics varies hugely dependent on a) whether I have the time b)the weather. Sometimes I have the time to add to a picture later so it can get hugely improved back home. I spent hardly any time in the dark on this and I really thought it looked embarrasingly poor, but the colour I added in Photoshop really transformed it.
Drawing in the dark is great fun. Go with a few coloured pencils and then see whether you guessed right when you get home!
I can't really imagine how you do the fading colours in photoshop but you seem to have achieved what I was trying to get with paint the other day - blue to yellow without green in between. Anyway, this pic has a lovely mood to it.
Katherine, it was bad enough with one pen!
Alison, Photoshop is a great package and I learned all the trickery you can do with it for the day job. This was an awful lot easier than trying to paint a gradation
This antipodean doesnt walk in the dark! If I fell over no one would find me except the cows. Lovey work.
this drawing is absolutely amazing. Can i use it on my blog? I will write a note, that it's yours. If you don't want me to use it, just say it, i will remove it.
Thank you for your nice comment. And thank you for asking, although I see you've placed the image without waiting for my reply. I earn my living from being paid for design and illustration so I would normally only allow free use of my images either for a worthy cause, such as a charity, or if someone is writing a review of my work and linking back. If I was sympathetic to the writing in your blog, I'd say yes. However regrettably I can't read your language, so I would prefer it if my work is not used unless I can be sure that the content of your blog is such that I would happily allow free use of my work.
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