Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love;
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee, opening to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; drive the dark of doubt away;
Giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day!
-Henry van Dyke (sung to the melody of Ode to Joy)
Yesterday was a good day. I got a lot of sketching done and this made me feel productive. I was looking through my past sketchbooks and things I put online and I realized that for the most part, my artwork has been devoid of color. I’ve known for some time that my wardrobe needed an intervention, that I’ve been wearing too much black and gray, but I never carried the concept over to my artwork.
I’m not going to get into studying color theory right now. That is a goal for a different time (2010 maybe?), but I definitely want to incorporate more color into the things that I’m already doing. I might start drawing flowers again. It is spring after all. I’ve let some anti-flowers comments keep me from drawing flowers. I’m done with that! Flowers make me happy so I might as well make myself happy…
Regardless of what the subject matter is, I’m going to make a conscious effort to include actual colors, even if they are monochrome or very muted. I am done with looking at gray and black. The winter is over!
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