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BrightEye wrote: ↑06 Nov 2017, 08:08

Wizz wrote: ↑06 Nov 2017, 07:45
Awesome! I'd like to know what did you look at when you got the last one and draw it as is!

You mean The Ammonite's Dream?

BrightEye wrote: ↑18 Aug 2017, 03:47 Thank you, DDwarks.

The Ammonite's Dream:


This one is semi-automatic, especially the background. The combination of paint and paper structure suggested shapes to me that I then worked into the overall composition.

Wizz wrote: ↑06 Nov 2017, 07:45

BrightEye wrote: ↑03 Nov 2017, 13:50 Thank you, Wizz. I like drawing what I see, either with my outer or my inner eye, or both.

Awesome! I'd like to know what did you look at when you got the last one and draw it as is!

fractalgranny wrote: ↑08 Nov 2017, 22:40

This is so beautiful! Have you created a tarot/oracle deck? Or have you thought of doing that?

BrightEye wrote: ↑09 Nov 2017, 02:52

Wizz wrote: ↑06 Nov 2017, 07:45

BrightEye wrote: ↑03 Nov 2017, 13:50 Thank you, Wizz. I like drawing what I see, either with my outer or my inner eye, or both.

Awesome! I'd like to know what did you look at when you got the last one and draw it as is!

I have a small collection of fossilised ammonites, so I've been studying their form for a particular series of drawings (of which the one you asked about is one). I often work with unpremeditated watercolour sketches to generate ideas for drawings. So in this case I splashed watercolour randomly on paper, drew the touch shape of the ammonite (I knew I wanted to draw an ammonite, but that's as far as the planning went) and then looked at the way the colour spread across the paper to see what else would suggest itself. It was a tree that seemed to grow out of the ammonite tentacles. The tentacles seemed like tree roots. So for this drawing here I used the watercolour sketch I just described and drew something a bit less fuzzy and more distinct.

Joan Marie wrote: ↑19 Nov 2017, 05:40 Your technique is amazing and ethereal.