Saturday, April 25, 2015

Week 17 - Channel your inner Picasso

This was a really tough prompt for me...I'm not a person that draws well.  I'm just not.  My artistic abilities are barely good enough to clue in my "partners" in Draw Something, but sometimes I like giving it a shot.  And I was thinking, oh, well, Picasso, how damn hard can THAT be?  Harder than you would think!!!

But I took a pencil to one of my backgrounds and started playing around...first, I drew a fish.  Extra fins, an extra tail thing...but it didn't look weird enough, so I started adding some extra facial features....extra eyes, kissy lips.....and I got so excited,












I decided to try a crab.  But first...well, first I had to figure out how to draw the damn thing!  So off to pinterest I went, but of course, being an artist who doesn't "draw", my crab looked NOTHING like any of the ones I looked at for inspiration, but it's Picasso-esque...sort of...maybe, so what the hell?  So, again, I started adding stuff...











Then I decided to try my hand at an octopus...not exactly a spot on rendition, but still having some fun...so again I added the extra features..














and THIS is what I came up with!



And since this is supposed to be about stretching ourselves past our comfort zone,  I didn't redo it and try out some "cubism" that Picasso was big into.   This isn't my favorite spread I've ever done, but I don't hate it.

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  1. Good job Melody, and you left lots of room to journal about your Picasso experience! That's what we're supposed to do in our journals, right....?? Journal.

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    1. Thanks, Betty! And you're absolutely right...we are supposed to journal in our journals..HA!!!!!

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  2. You rocked this prompt!!! Love the cool sea creatures!!!

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