Shades of Grey

After yesterday’s blog posts about my beginning adventures with graphite I wanted to show and talk about my first pieces I had full control of, as far as my style, image source, and ideas… with some very helpful tips from my art teacher.

“HOPE”

The first piece is a mostly graphite drawing and then I added in some blue chalk where the river is. I added the blue in among the grey’s of the garbage to show that even in bad situations you can always find hope among the ruble. I found this image in a magazine I was given at a Peace Jam Conference- at Peace Jam I was able to meet with Nobel Peace Prize Laurette Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who I was able to talk about my work of art therapy through our local visitation center in Duluth.

“NOTHING ON EARTH COULD COME BETWEEN THEM”

 My favorite movie of allll time is Titanic, it has been since it first came out, and it is the love of my life. {IT COMES OUT IN 3D ON APRIL 6TH!!} So, with all of this love, why wouldn’t I draw an image from it? One of my biggest struggles with this drawing were their hands, and Jack’s face… which is where Mr. Harder was of great assistance. I remember when I was working on this I had art class right before lunch, and I was so into it that I missed lunch for many days because I just wanted to keep pluggin’ along.