Play Day - Tomatoes

Greetings.

No bears today. Too many volunteer tomatoes. Way too many. But here are a lucky few - drawn to the tunes of Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr.

No excuses. Hit the junk drawer #2 for the bag of markers and high-lighters.

Used: blue HI-LITER
          "Cheap" blue marker
          Red Sharpie
          Yellow Sharpie
           Pink HI-LITER
           Green Sharpie
           Bic Brite Liner
         

That's it. Drew the blue frame first, added to it later. The tomatoes were in a white bowl. I like drawing freely - not needing to be exactly accurate - UNLESS I WANT to be exactly accurate. I wanted the fun of drawing small tomato circles and coloring them in, using only the tools at hand. Squares and circles - with only a few accent marks for stems and such. Played around with ways to add volume - some more successful than others. And sort of wrecked the yellow Sharpie while creating orange-y areas hither and yon. Must admit I really like the orange effect. Sorry for wrecking you, Yellow Sharpie Marker. It had to be done. For Art.

Food, fresh or prepared, can be an excellent spur of the moment subject.

And there are Beautiful subjects in your backyard, farmers' market, or grocery store right now.

Maybe you'll be lucky enough to use up a few junk drawer art supplies today. Then you can treat yourself to an office supply/art supply Play Day. Woo hoo! After chomping a lovely fresh salad, of course.

Maybe tomorrow we'll get back to some bears. And you can get back to drawing whatever makes you Happy! On to it. No excuses.

Fare-thee-well,
Sue