I'm killing two birds with one stone today because this is drawing no. 5 for the November drawing a day and also EDM 128 which is to draw a view from one interior room into another. Again a two for the price of one as there are two doors that I can see from my side of the bed - the door to the room open to the stairs and the door into Mark's little den.I've been meaning to draw parts of this room as it has so many different and interesting angles. Feng Shui experts would probably throw a wobbly but that is one thing I no longer believe in. After all, if there was anything in it, the Chinese would be the healthiest, wealthiest and happiest people on earth!
If I was really greedy I could include the challenge to draw something I've made as that is one of my quilts on the wall of the stairwell (a pattern of Dijanne Cevaal's, and a technique which I loved doing). It looks from this drawing as if we sleep in a corridor but we don't usually have the door to the den open. Mark likes to keep the door and the shutter of the window closed, either to keep the room from getting too hot or too cold, something that drives me mad. All the boys in the house seem to like to close shutters and curtains during the day while I need as much natural light as possible! I love the windows up here too as we aren't overlooked and at night you can lie in bed and see the stars! Alex loves the sound of the rain on them too but I find that a little loud especially during a thunderstorm - you really feel much more exposed when the windows are facing the sky!
12 comments:
EXCELLENT job, Felicity!!!
Beautiful - a lot of interesting angles and tricky perspective. Really nice job.
A beautiful piece and all those angles and shading-wow-great!!
Great job, Felicity! I think your handled the perspective perfectly. :)
Gorgeous work!
Goodness, you look away for a couple of days and when you clock on again you've done loads of posts and been very prolific. Your drawings are superb as always and I've loved sneaking a look inside your house (born nosy I think!) I'd love to see the quilt too if you feel you'd like to share.
looks super. tackling perspective is something that i dread. you've done such a great job of it.
Your comments about feng shui are right on. I prefer-what I consider-the western culture version of feng shui: The Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander.
Alot less rigid...alot more intuitive...alot more user-friendly.
It is basically a fascinating, inter-connected list of elements in our built environment that all people respond to-regardless of culture. Check it out...I think you will find it very interesting.
Felicity, I just LOVE all your work. Where you get the patience to do such realistic and soft pencil work, I can't imagine. But v v lovely.
I like this a lot! (Just please tell me you used a ruler or a straight-edge of some sort!)
Thanks very much everyone!
Annabel, I totally understand, being nosy myself!
Thanks for that Rah, it sounds interesting.
r.e., yep I use a ruler as a bit of a guide (a few markers here and there) but I do the line freehand so it's not dead straight.
This is a beautiful sketch of your room. Tricky angles there, but you pulled it off perfectly. Nice work!
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