Drawing

Colored pencil rendering. I have been spending a lot of time just doing other things and really haven't had an opportunity to play around with colored pencil and Rapidograph pen. I don't think that there is a lot of effort in this but it is always fun. Just a way  to use my favorite scriptural verse, my pencils and a #0 Rapidograph. The pencils are prismacolors and this is done on very thin paper. There is always a need to burn off tension and this is one of my favorites. I just doodle and think about how to show excitement and exultation. If I had this much excitement this is how I'd show it. You don't have to be artistically inclined to just express feelings of happiness. When I went through a really long depression Psalm 118: 24 showed up in dozens of  my drawings. This was my way of saying that even if I felt bad I did not have to just lay down and let it overwhelm me. The depression lasted over ten years but I never gave up hope that it eventually end. Sometimes drawing is just a way to let out part of what needs to come out in order to feel loose and more optimistic. I always feel happier after drawing these little scribbles. This is done on a hardbound 8.5 by 11 sketchbook. I think the paper is about 65 lbs. I never knew that paper had weights. And it is what 500 sheets would weigh. Also known as a ream. Watercolor paper, good watercolor paper weighs 140 lbs. So 500 sheets would weigh 140 lbs.William Glasser, the man who wrote the book on Reality Therapy said that if you want to retain 95% of the information you learn, teach. I have always wanted to learn about design, the skill necessary to put together a good painting. If I wanted to learn about the components of design that go into a good drawing, I could teach it. Design is made up of different things. There is line. And value. Repetition. Unity. Texture. Balance. Form. Scale, sometimes referred to as size. Depending on the book there are other aspects as well. There's overlap And aerial perspective. Center of interest. There is movement. Color. Linear perspective.