One* of these things is not...

like the others. Online drawing group challenge for the week: draw a glass. Now I've just recently drawn glasses (see 'I'll be home for breakfast' below) but not wanting to appear churlish, here I went again: 

The ellipses aren't perfect, but life isn't. And, of course, this being Blue Time, I had to drag out my cobalt blue glassware. Wouldn' t you?

*salt cellar, one of a set. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Comments

[Carolyn]

I really like these glasses. I really didn't notice that they weren't perfectly symmetrical. Nice blog!

[Nancy Grim]

Laura - I can't seem to enlarge the picture of your glasses. This has happened before and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I could enlarge the one of your breakfast. Is some of your artwork scanned and others photos?

[allison paskett]

these look great and i love your use of color - the beautiful blues! i am in awe of your talent. i found this challenge very challenging for my beginner pen - but your's . . . ahhh, so well executed. thanks for sharing.

[Laura]

Nancy, it is all photographed. I checked this image and it enlarged for me, so it is working in general. Sometimes my computer won't enlarge thumbnails people post, but then I restart it and whatever was wrong is fixed. Let me know if you try restarting and it still doesn't work. I wonder if a lot of other people are having this problem. Thank you, Carolyn and Allison--so happy you dropped by!

[Lindsay]

Laura, you have captured the weight and feel of glass. These are beatuiful.
Lindsay

[mireille]

I recently read of Wabi-sabi, a Japanese term for the beauty that lies in imperfection ... and don't some aboriginal peoples actually build imperfection into their art, to let spirit flow through. or as if to denote God's acknowledgement that "a human made this." Regardless, your glasses are beautiful. xoxo

[Laura]

Thank you, L and M! And M, thank you especially for reminding me of the concept of wabi-sabi and telling me about the spirit-conducting properties of imperfection! I will still probably try to correct my ellipses, but don't worry--- plenty of imperfection will be left to satisfy any restless spirits cruising for a place to squeeze through.

[Karen Winters]

Since you were the inspiration for this week's challenge I'm so glad that you did some more! They turned out wonderfully!

[Linda]

Laura, I'd wondered if you were going to let the breakfast drawing stand in as your "glass" drawing, and I'm glad to see that you didn't! Beautiful as always, and I particularly like how you captured the air bubbles in the smaller glass! (and BRILLIANT to combine the whole thing with your blue period ...)
:-)

[Terri]

Beautiful Laura! Wish I could do glassware like that! :o)

[janey]

I totally agree with Mireille's comment about Wabi-sabi, a Japanese term for the beauty that lies in imperfection. I personally don't see the beauty in perfection. It's the imperfection that draws us to the object. I mean wouldn't you rather look at a curved line instead of a straight one?

[Jonna]

The blue! The blue! I'm entranced with the blue of the glasses. So pretty. (I told you my arty comments were insufferably lame, but I really do think your work is beautiful)

[Nancy Grim]

Laura - I tried to open your blue glassware photo again, after restarting as you suggested, and I still get nothing. All your other posts are OK, but that one just won't open for me. I get the download page and if I click on the "image" label I get the html gobblygook, the meaning of which totally confounds me.

I was very interested to see how you did the glasses. But since I can't comment on them, I will say that your various portraits are excellent! You really do capture the individual personality of each - wish I could do as well with my subjects.

[Kathleen]

The composition is just as lovely as the beautiful painting you achieved. The colors are luminous.

[Laura]

Nancy, I'll email the sketch to you. Sorry you've had so much trouble with it!
And thanks, Kathleen, for your nice comment.

[Pat]

Gorgeous painting! Esp. love the little goblet all the way on the left. Lucky you to have such a collection of cobalt blue glasses..I find myself entranced by them when I see them in stores. Someday I'll just have to get some:-)