Sketching in Pat's Garden

Staring over and through a garden into the deep woods does not make for the most bright and colorful drawing. In fact, using my left to sketch gave it a quality that makes the whole thing sort of border-line scary. Like this car door is a portal into the woods of our childhood nightmares. EEee-uuuww!

Left hand painting in the garden

Lots of fun enjoying the weather (warm once again) in our garden.  Sketchers, thank you for all the goodies you brought to help us enjoy the weather and each others company while we sketched with our non-dominant hand.  So difficult at first, but I think the brain can be trained.  Here are dominant and non-dominant sketches from Friday.

Sedum table and chair EDIM sketch
challenge

View from under the Birch tree

Left handed 

Non Dominant Sketching....in solidarity

What a tribe we have in WISK!! So member Paula broke her wrist and lamented she could not come to sketch because it is her dominant hand. "NO!" we cried, "You must come! In solidarity we will all sketch with our non dominant hand!" And we did. Throughout Pat Brookes' sumptuous garden you could hear the moans and grunts of sketchers figuring out small things like how to hold a brush in the non dominant hand. I felt like I was 6 years old again, painfully drawing the pen across the paper....all wiggly woo. And guess what! I really like this sketch! I did a quickie with my regular hand, but it's not nearly as interesting as this one. AND....it was one of those perfect NW days.