My first drawing!

If you follow me on Facebook you have probably been following my new artistic journey- my first ever art course! Believe it or not I have never taken an art course (except in elementary school). I was beyond excited when my husband told me to find a course I wanted to take at the local college (where he works) and register for it. I was hesitant at first because you know… I have a farm, two preschoolers, a home, a business and a ton of other stuff that occupy my time so I don’t possibly have time to do something just for plain ol’ fun. He insisted.  We looked over the summer course schedule and I found an Art Fundamentals class.  I read the description and it’s basically a little bit of everything- drawing, painting with acrylics, some mixed media, etc.  Sounded awesome to me!  I’ve been to 3 classes so far and I’m having a blast.

I’ve never drawn anything in my life! Seriously, all I can draw are very elementary looking stick figures.  In this week’s class our instructor put a wilted potted plant in front of the white board and I had to draw all the white board spaces I could see while looking at the plant.  In other words, I was not to draw the plant itself. Instead, you look past the plant and draw the open spaces that reveal the white background. Make sense? A little tricky but once I got the hang of it I started to enjoy the process a little more. After the drawing is done you shade the negative areas and that makes the the whole thing pop! So now you can {kinda} see what was in front of it.