Death is an elephant...

Death is an elephant, torch-eyed and horrible, foam flanked and terrible. 

-Vachel Lindsay

Draw Happy: Beautiful

Last post for the night/morning. This is the third exercise from Draw Happy and starts off with a charge to gesso your art journal pages and use it as part of the design.

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And this is what happened when I primed my paper with gesso.

Draw Happy: Getting in the Draw Happy Mood

For this exercise Jane instructed us to think of what made us happy before we even picked up a pen. I thought about it for a bit and while listening to the Juno soundtrack, this is what I came up with.

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This first image is after thinking about what made me happy.
Apparently at that moment it was my beau's eyes, the apology orchid and some waves.
Go figure. What I did like a lot is the wonder and glory of gesso to cover a failed sketch attempt.
The drawings were done with pen and oil pastel. I really like how the waves turned out.

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