We've been away on holiday for the week at Center Parcs (courtesy of Grandma, thank you, Grandma) - a week of pretending to be in another country without actually leaving the country. I was completely in love with the 'cabin' we stayed in. Not a cabin at all but to my mind the perfect house, open plan living area, lots of glass i.e. glass walls, totally minimal i.e. babyproof! Alexander loved the expanse of floor and lack of doorways allowing him to go crazy in his walker car and to crawl all over the place. It is right in the middle of a forest so I was able to delude myself that I was back in Austria...until you get inside the 'Plaza' at which point you can delude yourself that you are somewhere tropical, although it is a bit of a shock to the system if you accidentally leave the safety of the dome in your wet swimming costume and shorts (cue: me).
Anyway, Alexander had some really good snoozes I think as the result of all that time in the 'lazy river' and I was able to take advantage of the big wall of glass and draw nature in January without getting cold.
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| I really dislike that I used green for the background but I didn't have anything else and leaving it white looked odd too |
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| Surely the perfect home for an artist. Wall of glass! |
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| Alexander driving his car on the patio |
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| I really like how the colour came through the back of the page |
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| Close Up |
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| Colour block leaves - not finished as Alexander woke up! |
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| Real palm, artificial sunshine |
Equipment: A6 Moleskine, Faber Castell Pitt Pen 'S', Promakers 'Vanilla', 'Cool Grey 1', 'Moss' and 'Lime Green', Cheapo retractable pencil.
I'm with you...that wall of windows is perfect! My house has very small windows (in a very small house...) and we're surrounded by trees on all sides...very private, but very DARK, especially in the winter. But, oh, to be surrounded by light like that... *sigh*...just awesome. I'm glad you had fun on your vacation and that you had time to make art and that Alexander had fun rolling around the beautiful house! (He's so CUTE!!! It seems like you just had him and now he's getting so big!) I LOVE the color block leaves (<3<3<3) and the palm frond especially... And the color coming through on the back of the tree page...it looks like you used a mask on that side...the color is so even...I bow to your coloring skills! :)
ReplyDeleteI know, it would be amazing. Even better if the place was by the sea so you get all that seaside type bright light. Yes, I'm amazed at this baby. He's standing now and I can't leave him for a second as he keeps trying to climb up on everything! I love how Promarkers come through the page. I wish I had the courage to use them as a background and draw over the top of them more often. And for some reason when I do I never seem to blog them, I've even made the label 'reverse colouring in'...but never use it!
DeleteOne day...by the sea...you and me! (That could be a song!) :)
DeleteThat is the perfect baby age to me...when they are getting into everything and everything is so interesting to them (especially the things you don't want them to get into!) He must be trying to get a good vantage point so he can take it all in! :)
I hope you will try to make more pages like you said...the result is so awesome, that I can't believe you are afraid to do it! ...reverse coloring in...I like that! <3
Hey you really were "into the nature" What a beautiful place!! love the autumn leaves (winter) in the soil, it is seems as a magical place
ReplyDeleteThank you very much by going through my blog and comment you're very kind :
Thanks Roberto.
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