Today, in what may or may not become a new feature, depending on my whim and what I find that inspires me to try a technique or idea, I am sharing some drawings I did after being inspired by another artist. In this case, Rebecca McFarland.

After seeing Rebecca’s one line drawings, I thought, YEAH, I could definitely do more little things like this to keep my creativity ticking over. Since I don’t feel like engaging in an obstacle course every time I want to paint in my studio, {still full of boxes while I wait to move}, I have been setting up art camp on the coffee table some evenings.

Sometimes I just doodle or colour in, but sometimes I want something at least a bit more challenging and focused to get my teeth into. These one line drawings are perfect for when you don’t really know what to do but want to make marks and use colours.

Well my efforts do not seem to be the elegant and enigmatic portraits that Rebecca has produced. Mine all look either like they had a worrying accident or like a child with access to only very bright colours did them. Actually I hate them {although the dog’s quite cute}. The faces seem crude and sinister to me.

BUT, I enjoyed the process of doing them, and I can definitely use the one line drawing technique in future paintings.

 {crappy lighting alert. better get used to this for the next however many months.

especially since my most artistic time is night time.}