Seed Pod 1
Its Fall, a season of new beginnings.
I've been itching to do some new work, but not sure what. I decided to sit at my board and just start doodling. I started sketching a kind of pea pod, and thought "I don't want to draw peas, why am I drawing a pea pod?" But I finally gave in to it, sketched out a pod shape on a piece of Stonehenge and started coloring.
As I got into it, I realized the symbolism of a seed pod - its a dried or drying-up husk, and contains the seeds of new life. Creativity, new life, new work, new ideas, straining to come forth. How perfect an image is that?
This piece is 5 x 7. I started with Coloursofts, then switched to Lyra Rembrandt Polycolors and Polychromos. There are a lot of layers of pencil on this. A lot.
I loved just making this up out of my head. I'm kind of tired of taking reference photos and trying to slavishly copy things. Don't get me wrong - I love realistic art (obviously). And I love drawings of food or botanical subjects drawn from life. I'm just saying it was refreshing to invent something for a change.
I called it Seed Pod 1 because I have a feeling this may be a series.
I'm not sure where this will lead, but I'm hoping that whatever I've tapped into here will yield some good things all across the board (pun intended) - this 'fine art' side as well as the illustrator side of myself.
I called it Seed Pod 1 because I have a feeling this may be a series.