EDM Challenge #14: Draw what you see in the morning when you get up

Posted on by dannygregory

I did this painting fairly quickly, first in Dr. Martin’s washes and then added gouache and some white paint to simulate  a bleary, early morning, shallow depth of field. As is my wont, I worked quickly, nay hastily, and then scrawled a note along the bottom with a dip pen in Tiger Yellow watercolor.

For some reason, disaster struck:

The paper decided to turn my lines into spidery muck. Thinking I could repair matters, I tried a different nib and a darker ink. Matters went further down hill. Finally I pulled out my fountain pen and made a irreversibly botched job of it. I even slathered on some white-out to mitigate the damage and … ah, hell, that’s why Photoshop has a cropping tool.

Ugh.

Turn the page, on to the next challenge.

14 thoughts on “EDM Challenge #14: Draw what you see in the morning when you get up”

  3. There is a tender softness to this….perhaps you should try this more often, drawing through the blur….It’s early enough that I can’t read it through my own blur, so I thought the spidery muck was my own early morning vision… Seriously, that dog’s smile is enough to start the day out right..

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  5. “Quickly, nay hastily” sums up my artwork in a nutshell, too! but that speed gives it such flair and movement, it’s wonderful. And you know the old saying, paint big, frame small….photoshop cropping is the modern day version, I guess!

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  9. I’d say the writing is exactly HOW I SEE in the morning before I put on my glasses. LOL
    Delightful view of sleepy dog. I wonder what you would look like then if he drew you?

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