I went to Walden Pond today and tried to channel Thoreau. I didn’t end up writing at all, but I brought along my charcoal pencils and decided to try to draw some crappy pictures. They ended up not being terrible. Well, not that terrible – not as terrible as I thought they’d be. Amazingly, I got a bit of perspective in the wall drawing. Surprised me. And thus, I will probably leave my charcoals at home from now on and stick with pen and paper. Why try to top something that isn’t perfection but you know you can’t really do better??
Row 1: (L to R) My tree; the actual tree I was trying to draw; the tree, edited in iPhoto.
Row 2: (L to R) My stone wall; the actual stone wall I was trying to draw; the stone wall edited in iPhoto.
The photos turned out really well – even though they were just with my iPhone. It was a fun day, and nice to visit the pond.
2 responses so far ↓
cortney // June 15, 2009 at 10:22 am |
thumbs up. any artistic channeling is ok in my book. I haven’t drawn in ages. I should but I haven’t been inspired for way too long.
andrea // June 24, 2009 at 11:12 am |
You can draw girl…I like those pics!!! Love ya!!