Trunk Up! (The Beginnings Of A Painting) *Photo Essay*

Great job, Jennifer! I love seeing this work in progress...

I am anxious to see how this turns out! So far looks fabulous! :) Can't wait to see it! :)

Thanks Linda. It still isn't making me happy yet, but it's only the third day of working on it.

Thanks Christy. I am too as well as nervous. I've always struggled with human forms. :(

I like this essay! I'm awed by artists such as yourself. I've never quite grasped the artistic bug. I can't wait to see more progress and how it turns out.

I can't wait to see it finished!

Thank you David, but I'm not really that much of an artist. :( I try to be, but I usually fail and anything other than cartoon figures. :(

Maybe things will change now that I'm coming back to it after many years away.

Thank you Donna, I can't either... or maybe I can. It depends on how well it turns out, LOL.

This is going to be fun to watch!

Thanks for posting this to BEST ORIGINAL PHOTOS,ART AND WRITING FOR 2008.

**sigh** I have long admired all of those who can draw and paint... **double sigh**

Might even be funny depending on how many errors I wind up making LOL. I should have shown some of the sillier errors I made.. maybe I'll take shots of them before I erase next time.

You're welcome Marilyn.

Very nice, trunks up means good luck.

I think this is going to be a great painting.

This is the most wonderful sketch that I've seen for a first try at a fairly difficult vintage photo. The shading and lighting add extra challenges to this Jen.

I'm pleasantly AMAZED at what you've done on this so far.

I'd give all of your "first tries" a serious look. They have all been excellent! All the Fine Arts Masters have "first tries", and they may not look as good as yours Jen! . . .

This will be a wonderful journey for you with this new project. I'm EXCITED about it!

"Trunk Up" also means PROSPERITY.

Lilith ~ I think WE should ALL "TRUNK UP!" ~ L O L

Blessings ~
Rene

Its looking really nice! My big brother and both of my big sisters can draw like that - I got skipped in that department :) Will you keep us updated on this drawing? It has so much energy!

I'm anxious to see the rest of it.

very good

Nice sketch beginnings, girl. I draw a mean stick figure, lemme tel ya ;)

I can see how difficult it would be to draw at those angles...and that's why I write, not draw.
;-)

good to see the mechanics

I'm pretty terrible with drawing people, too, but I find that grids generally help. I use a square grid most often, but the circle grid looks pretty good, too. What you have so far is a great start, though! ^_^ I'm sure it'll come out beautiful once your done. I can't wait to see the finished product.

Thanks for posting to Gather for Art.

It looks pretty great to me, Jennifer! Like Marianne already said, I'm a stick figure person myself too. LOL

Thanks for posting to All Photo Essays Here.

I love seeing works in progress! Did you read the novel, Water for Elephants?

FASCINATING Lilith I don't think I knew that - or if I did I'd forgotten. :)

Thanks JR I HOPE it is... or I'm gonna cry. LOL

Rene, dear friend, thank you so much for your kind words of support. Normally I think I would have passed up this picture to draw due to my known weak areas in art (Humans, hands, faces, shadows) but for some reason I was drawn to it. I blindly followed that pull and here I am. I'm feeling a bit lost, but seeing improvements. (You should have seen the mistakes on her chest! LOL They were, uh funny.)

My inner perfectionist kind of makes my first tries a bit more serious than maybe they should be, but I guess there's a good side and bad side to that.

Indeed it will be a wonderful, if not HUMOROUS journey from start to finish. I'll be sure to catalog some of the sillier mistakes... maybe if I LAUGH inner critic will back off and think I'm not taking it too seriously. ;-)

Prosperity. *smiles* Nice meaning.

Lisa I believe that everyone can draw. It's just a matter of following the lines you see every day in nature. I will most certainly keep you updated on the progress. :)

Me too Amanda. I took a day off from working on it, though. So no new updates today, LOL.

Thank you Marianne! Aww I'd LOVE to see your stick figures. :)

LOL Ellie. I'm a glutton for punishment. I write AND draw.

Thanks KC

Sammie, I try not to use the grids, but this one is such a small reference photo - about 12 inches.. a bit less and the canvas version is 16 X 20! So I wound up needing it for the size issues and poor quality of the photo! I can't wait to see it finished either.

Thanks Victoria!

Laya no I haven't but it's on my list. Here's a little secret I've kept under wraps. This painting is to go side-by-side for a novel I hope to write in November. I'm doing prelim research now, and found this image in one of my research materials. :)

working with graphs is always helpful im making any pic.

That's awesome

This looks great so far! You have a wonderful talent.

looks like a great start i gonna search for more of this work in progress