A Touch of Grace

Hi Everyone,

You just can’t believe my excitement when I had the honor of meeting artist Judy DuFoe in person.  It was a total surprise, I had no idea I would be meeting her!  I’m a very casual person and most of the time I don’t wear any makeup (I’m embarrassed that I wasn’t wearing any on the day of this meeting .   .   . oops!) and I usually wear jeans or cargo pants.  I had washed my hair that morning, didn’t bother to blow it dry, just pulled it back in a barrette, and headed over to Lakeland.  Oh my .   .   . a day of total embarrassment . . . you know, the kind where you just wish the earth would open and swallow you up!! 

Judy is one of the nicest persons I’ve ever met!  She is so gracious with lots of southern charm. 

I’ll have some designs to post in a few days.  I’ve been working on some watercolors and hope to get them made into designs this weekend. 

Do you remember earlier in my blog when I said I wanted to take classes.  Well, I still haven’t found the time to squeeze that in, but I have been working on a drawing.  I bought a book on drawing flowers at Michael’s and this is my first attempt:

I used saral paper to make the outline.  I then used a cool gray #30 prisma colored pencil to sketch in the petals and large leaf and to do the shading.  For the darker shading I used a #90 cool gray.  The drawing in the book only had the large leaf, I added the smaller leaf, stem, and sepals.  I’ve started the coloring, but that’s taking me a long time as the picture in the book is in black and white.  Colored pencil is like onions, you have to layer the colors for dimension.  As you can see from the small leaf, I’ve only applied the first layer.  I hope to finish this project this weekend.