Featured Daily Sketch: Autumn Afternoon Nap, 2014
We ended up without too much sun today, but for a while it was pretty bright yellow, hence the background color with green leaves and a purple aster cat maybe? Either way, it’s Giuseppe and Mimi in my favorite autumn colors.
I sketched the two a few times with my brush pen trying to get the best angle, but only used one of the sketches as my daily sketch on August 10. But there they were again yesterday, and the autumn sunlight shone for a bit and olive green leaves and other autumn colors gave me this idea and brought back the sketches I’d done on August 10. That’s another something new, creating several sketches at one time and then going back to them one by one to rework them. I actually didn’t like this sketch when I first looked at it, in part because I was seeing something else that I wanted. But I never toss anything and often I go back to something I didn’t care for and wonder what I was thinking! This is much improved with the addition of color, and fun too!
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That’s a fun sketch!
Kind of one of those intuitive ones, it was fun for me too, colors and all.