A while back I wrote a post about some artwork I did inspired by a book: Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun, by Carla Sonheim. (Look here for that post.) It’s turned into an ongoing series. I’ve been very inspired by the same subject – the cracks in the sidewalks under my feet.
Search this blog under the term “sidewalk art” to find earlier posts in the series.
My method is to take one photo and rotate it through a circle – that way I can do four drawings from one photo. Here is the source photo for the drawings done on 7/15/20:
and here is the artwork.
You have made really effective use of the white space of the blank page in these drawings. I am especially drawn to the illustration in the top left.
Thank you. The temptation is always to fill everything up with pattern (if you are me). So the big open areas are my challenge.