I started taking drawing lessons last year, and for those of you who read my newsletters, you know I LOVE it!
I thought I'll share the drawings I made so far because some of them are actually pretty fucking awesome if I do say so myself. My daughter says so too. In fact, she recently told me that I'm her favorite artist!
I use photo examples for all these paintings, so none of these are originals from my twisted brain. But yes, I drew them all!
The first drawing I made was pastel crayons on bristol board and it was a drawing of a ladybug in an oat field. So when I finally moved to acrylic on canvas, I decided to follow with the-bug-on-a-plant theme and picked this picture of a butterfly on a flower.
I finally did not follow up with the bug-on-a-plant theme for my second painting. This is my least favorite one. I think it's because I made it in June which was towards of the end of the course (it runs according to regular school dates - from September to June), so I painted it too quickly and didn't correct the parts that need correcting. I do like the trees, though. I think they came out the best.
This is a painting of a painting. For those of you who don't know it, I tried recreating Salvador Dali's "Meditative Rose". I started it in September 2022 and completed it in January 2023. This fucking thing kicked my ass, I knew it would be a challenge but I didn't imagine just how hard it would be. And with all the effort I put into it, it's still eons away from the original. If you compare it to the original, this would look like a kid drew this. Duh! I could paint for centuries and never be as good as Dali.
After Dali's Rose, I decided I've fucking had it with bright-colored happy-go-lucky paintings of flowers and shit. I decided to look for something darker, more freaky, more macabre, more... well, more ME. So I went for this one. It took me no more than a month but it came out amazing! I call it "An Apocalyptic Vision". So far, my favorite.
This is my latest painting and my teacher's favorite of the ones I made. It keeps with the "dark" theme of before. Even if the colors are brighter, the subject matter is still a gloomy one. The only reason it took me longer to complete was because I missed several classes because of holidays and also because I got sick and couldn't go to class. But it's also because it has some finer details, the shading, the bricks, the fingers... And it was also because although the drawing looked fine earlier on, my teacher tends to push me further if he knows I can do better. He tells me what I need to focus on and how to improve it, and I follow his lead. And even if it takes a little longer, I come out with this beautiful result.
I don't know if I should start my next drawing. It's almost June and I don't want to rush my last drawing of the year like I did last time. I'm planning on yet another dark painting - Pennywise - and it needs to be perfect, of course. What kind of Constant Reader would I be if I didn't do my absolute best with a drawing of Stephen King's most terrifying character? I think I'll spend the rest of the classes working on the initial sketch and getting a bigger canvas than the ones I've been using for now.
Peace, love and acrylic stains forever!
Riot Grrrl 
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