Drawing #75: Robins Tell Leaves

This is my first class project in a mixed media art class I'm taking at our senior center. Some of us began with drawing from plants provided by our teacher. I used one with lots of leaves and no flowers. From a preliminary drawing I went into my usual interpretive mode making it mostly about the shapes. I've done a lot of collage on it along with colored pencil and my various ink lines and designs. It is probably finished at this point unless I think of any changes or additions later. My photo of the drawing has the paper color rather darker than it really is but the colors and design look pretty close. (And click on the image to see it larger.)

 

In today's class when I reached this point with the first drawing, The teacher interested me in using some colored papers for my background. I chose a deep color and did a light drawing of another interesting plant. Then I got the collage started. Below is my beginning phase. Next I want to use some acrylic paints before starting the defining black ink lines. Then I can evaluate and work on my fine line designs. I'm very interested to see how this goes with a deep color background. It is just a small sheet but the drawing above is a bit larger than my usual these days of 9" x 12".