Rest and Recovery

Sundays have become a day of rest and recovery here. With this in mind I didn’t expend too much mental or physical energy on art making today.

I continue to work daily on The Natural Way to Draw exercises. Today was more gestures and soon I’m going to have to enter into a challenging exercise of a contour drawing that will last 5 hours. FIVE HOURS! YIKES!

Today, I kept the exercise work short and did 25, one minute gestures.

Daily Composition

Whenever we take a shower our cat Sullivan comes to the door and looks at us scornfully. This is after he yowls for the whole time we are in the shower. We are not sure why he does it…

What went well?

Easy day, all about rest and recovery, for my body and mind.

What didn’t go so well?

Lost a lot of focus on the gestures today and didn’t define many motives or impulses before doing each gesture.

What did I learn and/or how can I do better?

I updated my drawings page with the latest drawings I’ve finished for Fandom Fitness.

Session Details

Session: 2683
Work: 1706
Width: 5
Height: 7
Medium: Charcoal, Watercolor, Ink
Art Time: 2 hrs

Charcoal, Figure, From Photograph, Watercolor

Chris Beaven

I'm an artist on a mission to do at least 30 minutes of art every single day for the rest of my life and track that progress on my website for all to see. I'm past the 10 year mark and I'm still going strong. Now it's time to give back and help other artists create a life long habit of creating.