Everyday in May 7-8

 

EDM 7 - A tin from my kithchen. This is a tea container from Kusmi Tea, lovely tea and lovely a lovely little tin.

EDM 8 - A piece of jewellery. This is one earring from a set of earrings and a necklace that my husband gave me for our fifth wedding anniversary.

 

I also completed EDM 270 - draw something you want to preserve. This is my daughter Alice painting a dinosaur at her little easel. I would like to preserver our companionship, and intimacy. Our doing things together, having fun, drawing and painting, or anything really. I really want to see her grow up, and I always want to be her friend.

This is really only a quick sketch. Painting people is hard for me, and this just feels blotchy and very rough. I honestly don't know what I would do next if I were to continue work on this one. Any suggestions?

Every day in May 6

 
EDM no 6 - draw a favourite well-loved object or a childhood toy. This bear was given to me by my husband when we had just met and I was going away as an exchange student for 6 months. He's called Kasper-Valter (Valter is my husband's middle name), and was my companion for those 6 months, sleeping in my bed, giving me a good night kiss every night. He is indeed well-loved.

I had intended to do a quick pencil sketch and then fill it in with ink and water color, but then this drawing just kind of came. I was hardly aware of what I was doing. I was even talking to my husband at the same time and the sketch just kept on coming through. Very cool experience, so I've decided to let him stay the way he is (but I really need to get some of that fixing spray, bacause the sketch is really getting smudged, just by me writing next to it). At least for now.

 

And this is how the intire spread turned out in the end, for challenges 5 and 6.

Everyday in May 5

 

This is EDM challenge no 5 - draw your bed. My own bed was occupied by my husband putting our son to sleep, so I decided to draw my daughters bed instead. We both had a great time, me drawing her bed and her painting beside me. The duvet cover has Barbie on it, only partly showing, which my daughter wasn't very pleased with. She also insisted that Barbies hair wasn't quite so fuzzy in reality so I had to explain to her about artistic freedom. :)

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This is part of the Everyday in May challenge - drawing something every day in May. A group of us thought it would be fun to do a Everyday Matters (EDM) challenge each day using EDM 1-31. The list of participants in this particular May challenge can be found at Liz and Borrominis blog.
The list of EDM challenges can be found here.

Everyday in May no 4

 

I have no comment to this one. I did a mug and some other stuff, so challenge completed. And then lets forget about this one, ok?

Every Day in May no 3

Here's my beloved Marimekko tote. I love it because of the wonderful colors, and because I can fit a lot of art supplies in it!

Every Day in May

 
EDM no 1 - Draw a shoe
 
EDM no 2 - Draw a lamp

I decided to try the Every Day in May challenge. The idea is to do one of the EDM challenges each day starting from no 1. It seems like a lot of fun, and the list of participants can be found on Liz and Borominis blog. Check back tomorrow for todays challenge - draw a bag!

Negative space

 

I've been trying some negative space drawing with my new Lamy Safari pen. Love the pen, negative space is fun but difficult. Any hints on what to think about?