Friday, June 15, 2012

security

pen and ink


And you'll always love me won't you?
Yes.
And the rain won't make any difference? 
No.” 


~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms


sharing at APR

21 comments:

  1. I like the elephants and the quote. Nice! :)

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  2. Loving your beautiful elephants, x

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  3. Wow elephants...I love them but I find them so hard to draw. You make it look easy...what talent!
    Hemingways quote fits perfectly :D

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    1. Neesie, it is just that I have drawn a gazillion of them in the last 3 years. It is my "when-all-else-fails" subject to turn and return to. I actually tried to sketch several other things for APR this week... and all failed. So elephants it had to be:-)

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  4. I love your elephants minn, I used to collect them. When I was a little girl I had hundreds of elephants, statues, carvings, stuffed, pictures, wall hangings etc. Every time there was any celebration someone would buy me an elephant, lol.
    Yours look awesome, you capture them so well. Thanks for joining this week!
    Best,
    Jenn

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    1. I used to collect them too! They still are my absolute favorite animal:-)

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  5. Lovely, it's pouring here just now! Valerie

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  6. Sweet! I love the elephants! Great quote!

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  7. This feeling of always being there for your loved ones always touches my heart...love it.

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  8. Now I've seen the elephants. We missed them at the zoo. Fun sketch and quote.

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  9. What a nice sweet pic of the two....

    blessings,
    Cindy♥

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  10. Hello Minnemie:) Beautiful example of security! Love it. Very nice drawing. Have a nice weekend!

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  11. Beautiful! I'm afraid of pen and ink. You have a wonderful touch with it.

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  12. great sketch of elephants... you capture structure so perfectly and it helps me understand why your paintings are so great.... do you sketch under your watercolours, or do you apply paint straight away????

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    1. Tracey, I definitely sketch before I paint. Wish I could be more "free" in my approach... but not there yet. That said, I am actually a little insecure about my sketching and often set out to cover the insecurity with paint:-) But lately, studying your sketches and those of others has helped me lay the lines bare:-)

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  13. Love the quote and the drawing!

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  14. Wonderful elephants! Lovely shapes and hatching. Nice!

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  15. Wonderful sketches! Wonderful. I love elephants!

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  16. Nice one, Minn! Do you use pencil first or straight in with the pen?
    I usually start with pencil ... but get bored with it, and live with the risks ink brings :0)

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  17. Beautiful sketch! Love the paintings and quotes here too!

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  18. Your elephants are beautiful, captured in all their majesty. I am too afraid to try animals or people, so people who can draw them are fabulous artists in my eyes. I always have to pencil in a pic before I'm game to try and ink, do you do that too?
    Sorry I'm so late replying, having another one of those weeks.
    Von.

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