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I’m going to draw some roses. I need to look at flowers! This sad, cold, snowy, icy Spring weather is getting me down, and I want to spend some time gazing at flowers that bloom when it’s warm.<\/p>\n

Roses are tricky to draw because they are so very<\/em> red. (Or, whatever color they are, they are always very intensely that color.)<\/p>\n

Drawing any flower with graphite is challenging because you have to figure out how to express its color in a way that looks real, but roses are particularly difficult because people “know” them so well and expect to see color.<\/p>\n

You have to start with a beautiful shape and then punch up the contrast to make them “glow<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

I have some photos of roses that I took a summer, and I’ll be working from them. I’ve printed out a few in color and a few in grayscale and I’m having different reactions to those different versions.<\/p>\n

I can almost smell the color roses, but I can almost touch the roses in the grayscale photos. I can almost feel how soft and cool the petals were. I can almost step into the grayscale photo and move around the roses.<\/p>\n

The color photo seems much more limited. Hopefully, my drawing will combine all those reactions and will be it’s own expression of these roses. (Gosh – hope I can live up to those expectations!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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