Starting work on DS #4

This is just the bare beginning - another one that doesn't look like much yet. But I'm pleased to have started!

And this is the color drawing I was pulling from. (This is from when I was doing these almost every day, and calling them MDP drawings, for Mood Daily Practice drawings: I would do whatever I felt like, and then look at them and discover how I was feeling. If that makes sense.)

P.S. I loved the sketchbook I was working in then - kind of a manila-colored paper with faint patterning on it. I used up all the pages, and had to find another sketchbook... I miss that one!

DS #1, update #5

Moving along. This is today's progress:

 

I've added circles to the top band, and kind of leaf edges, or flame edges, to the green area around the horse's back end; I've "smudged" the three little howling wolf cubs; and I've started making the lacy budding-out tree edge, and also given it some branches and a trunk, and a green shape to rest on. I'll be doing more of the lacy twiggy part; and, of course, the wolf cubs will take shape.

Here are details of the wolf cubs and the budding-out tree:

 

And some side notes

 Here are a few quick color drawings I've been doing. In this arena (I think these are becoming my Sunday drawings - I play with them while I'm chat hosting our Sunday services...) I seem to be on a moon-and-tree focus, with these latest ones, and I'm really enjoying them.

The first moon-and-tree emerged quite accidentally; I just started drawing a curve, and some squiggles, and then filling in, and I don't know where this came from but I love it:

Then, the next week:

Rather sweet, I think. A gentle reaching out...

Then, this last Sunday - I had finally decided consciously that moon-and-tree is something I'm enjoying doing, so why not keep doing it?

This feels like embracing.

A note about what I'm using, here: I have a multi-color colored pencil that I adore. (Actually, I have several color varieties, but there's one I usually start with; and when I'm out and about, and need to doodle something but can't carry everything with me, this one is always fun.) Then I might go in with one of the other multi-color ones, and then some fat stubs of Lyra and Ferby (I think) children's colored pencils (I inherited them from my grandkids); and a few colors of Prismacolor color sticks. Which, alas, are no longer available in open stock... bummer... but I have my bits and pieces, and it works for me.

And: started work on DS #2

This doesn't look like much yet, but it was so fun to work on. I love working on washes-to-edges, whether I'm filling the inside of a shape, or working around the outside. Both are happening here: the circle, painting within the edge; and then adding more paint and watching it decide where it wants to go; and then, around the - is it a fish or a whale, or a crocodile hybrid??? or what??? Painting around its edges feels so tactile to me, like moving my hand along the shape of its body.

 

More work on DS #1 - followup #4

 I am really liking the chartreuse band at the top. And having fun with this! A friend of mine remarked that that top band really shifted the energy of this piece for her - and I feel that too.

Also - probably hard to see, though - I have slightly darkened (or maybe the more accurate phrase is "made barely noticeably less light") the strip below the blue line at the bottom. I'll probably want to slightly darken it a little more, still...