A half year finished, a half year to go! Six months, 180 drawings done…WOW!
As I look at this gallery of 30 images, I realize that it is an eclectic group ranging from stained glass to cake! I appreciate the Every Day Drawing Challenge tasks more and more as the year goes by because working from a list causes me to draw things I normally would not draw. Plus, when I see a task that I feel bored about, I have to work hard to think of a way to make it a little more exciting. I love that process!
I’ve been relying on the ArtRage app for the month of June. This is because I was borrowing an iPad from the school as I shattered the screen on mine. Typical “in a hurry” move where I was trying to pack up and get out the door for an appointment, I pulled the iPad quickly off the desk, forgetting that it was plugged in until the cord pulled back. It spun out of my hands and on to the floor. Yes, it was just that quick! Anyway, I didn’t want to load up the loaner with a bunch of apps, so I pretty much used Art Rage all month. It was easy to do. ArtRage is a versatile app that has a great variety of tool options and canvas textures. It’s a great app.
My go-to stylus this month has been the Adonit Jot. I love the precision of the ball point. I lost the plastic disc somewhere, but was able to order some replacements from the Adonit website. This is my favorite stylus. The only negative is the click, click, clicking as you work quickly across the surface of the iPad.
If you want to draw along with me, you can publish your drawings to Instagram and tag #everydaydrawingchallenge or #eddc @monalisaliveshere. You can also post them on my Faceboook page. I would love it if you would join me!
To follow is the gallery of June digital drawings. And after that is the Every Day Drawing Challenge list for July. Happy drawing! Happy half year!
June 1 (#151): Free choice App: ArtRage This painting goes out to all Urban Missionaries. I’ve been wanting to paint Our Lady of Hope for a while now and am grateful for a free choice task to do so. I used the oil painting tool on ArtRage…
June 2 (#152): Draw a nut App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel One of my friends shares a summer cottage with his brothers. Each family has two weeks vacation there, then it’s the next family’s turn. One year my friend got all excited when he found a bag of pistachios in the cupboard when he arrived for his turn at the cottage. He excitedly reached into the bag only to find that it was full of the shells his brother had saved to refill the bag and trick him…not nice! But funny…
June 3 (#153): Draw something in a plastic wrapper App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – Made in Massachusetts, these plastic-wrapped treats were a favorite at the diner where I worked as a teen. They are so well wrapped that, as a waitress, I would sometimes have to help a customer get them started…
June 4 (#154): Draw a lemon App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor brush How cheerful is a big, bright, sunny, yellow lemon?
June 5 (#155): Draw something with a step or steps App: ArtRage – pencil and watercolor – I love the visual rhythm of the steps to the clay studio covered in snow…
June 6 (#156): Draw a sandwich App: ArtRage – pencil and watercolor – Soon we’ll be using locally grown produce to make my favorite summer sandwich – cucumber, tomato, and avocado… yummers!
June 7 (#157): Draw a towel App: ArtRage – Pencil – My son and the hooded towel he loved to be wrapped up in after his bath…
June 8 (#158): Draw a kernel of popped popcorn App: ArtRage – Oil Paint & Pencil – I love popcorn…
June 9 (#159): Draw your favorite cooking tool App: ArtRage Tool: Oil pastel – I use these canning tongs to place and remove hot canning jars in a big pan of boiling water. When I can (put up) jams, pickles, and salsa, I feel connected to the generations of industrious homemakers before me who put up food in the summer and fall in order to provide food for their families throughout the winter and spring…honorable and necessary…
June 10 (#160): Draw a trophy or an award App: ArtRage Tool: Marker and Crayon – It took 4 years and as many team configurations to finally win our Education Foundation Trivia Bee…the three of us on the team each got one of these little guys, and our school got a giant trophy…
June 11 (#151): Draw something you think smells wonderful App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – This is a drawing of Petrichor, the scent of rain on dry earth. In the summertime, I love the smell of rain on pavement just after the sun comes out again …
June 12 (#162): Draw your breakfast App: ArtRage Tool: Oil pastel – It’s such a treat to have Red Barn coffee from Angel’s Cafe with breakfast this week…yummers!
June 13 (163): Draw a deck of cards App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil – “In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.” – Van Morrison
June 14 (#164): Draw a camera App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – My first “serious” camera, circa 1982. Yes, I still have it …
June 15 (#165): Draw the front of your house, apartment building, etc. App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil Our house in fall colors…a quick sketch …
June 16 (#166): Draw a fish App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – I love that the task on Father’s Day is to draw a fish. So many fathers enjoy fishing and they pass that love on to their children, as my son’s father did for him in just the first 3 years of his life. He was lucky to have his uncles and grandfather to continue to fish with him and as a result loves fly fishing today – this is a rainbow trout…
June 17 (#167): Draw something that needs fixing App: ArtRage Tool: Oil paints It’s berry season in New England and my berry breakfast needs fixing…happy Monday!
June 18 (#168): Draw your daily newspaper App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil – Before I was a teacher I was a printer for 20 years. I started in paste-up and layout, working at a local newspaper. These were the tools of the trade: x-acto knife, non-repro pencil, pica ruler, etc along with hot wax. Pretty odd writing about this on my iPad, which does the same thing in a very different way. PS – I don’t get a daily newspaper. I get my news on the Internet..
June 19 (#169): Draw a piece of cake App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint This was a piece of cake thanks to Wayne Thiebaud, whose work I copied here…
June 20 (#170): Draw a zipper
App: ArtRage Tool: Crayon and Watercolor
I hate when this happens to a zipper…
June 21 (#171): Draw some ice cream
App: ArtRage Tool: Crayon & Watercolor –
I scream…U scream…We all scream for ice cream…
June 22 (#172): Draw something that sparkles
App: ArtRage Tool: Marker
They say a diamond is a girl’s best friend, but I would argue that strong self esteem and a positive self image are a girl’s best friend…
June 23 (#173): Draw something from memory
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor –
Took a ride on the Cape Cod railroad yesterday. This is the Bourne bridge from the railroad bridge over the Cape Cod Canal from memory…we went over the railroad bridge…very cool!
June 24 (#174): Draw a bridge
App:ArtRage Tool: Airbrush & Art marker
Both metaphorically and literally, I’ve always been a fan of bridges. This from a photo I took 2 weeks ago of the Zakim/Bunker Hill bridge over the Charles…
June 25 (#175): Draw a basket and what it holds
App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor –
This is a quahog basket. It holds possibility. Once I go quahog digging it will be full of quahogs. Have you ever dug quahogs? If so, what did you make with them?
June 26 (#176): Draw something summer
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint
Nothing says “summer” like a popsicle…in this case my favorite flavor…what’s your favorite flavor?
June 27 (#177): Draw a flag
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel –
The Italian flag in memory of Uncle Louie…may he rest in peace…
June 28 (#178): Draw something red
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint
One of a pair of cardinals that fly around our front yard…
June 29 (#179): Draw an onion
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor on marbled paper –
“Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep” – Carl Sandburg
June 30 (#180): Draw something in your favorite color
App: ArtRage Tool: Marker –
Red used to be my favorite color, then I switched to purple. Now I have a few favorite colors and they’re all in this drawing of my favorite shape to doodle. Yes, I know my favorite shape, but please don’t ask me to choose a favorite color…