I gravitate toward the color red around the holiday season. So when I got invited to the Ugly Christmas Portrait Party on Zoom with the Night Owls (on Sketchbook Skool’s Spark calendar) I had my red marker ready along with a fountain pen. The poses were quick with no time for thinking – the kind I love! Also, with no time in between for changing paper I just lined them up on two pages.
You would be right if you thought these people were having a jolly time, and with constant banter back and forth while drawing. And no, I came too late to be ready to pose.
No post processing clean up here. The first lines are always the best anyway. And scribble lines seem to come from some sensory memory of moving the crayon on the paper you were given at age 3. Once I got warmed up I could almost have sketched all night! Well, not exactly. With this dark season of the year I’m often sound asleep by 9:30.
Just a reminder that art is at its most potent when it’s done in community and with the delight of a good party!
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