Pumpkin Detail
This is my latest entry in my journal, again I have had a lovely time playing with pattern. I am surprised about my patience in the repetitive pattern making, but I have realised that I find it very meditative and calming. I also am very run down at the moment and the chronic fatigue is turning my brain to a pea soup fog, so the gentle repetition is very soothing.
Pumpkin, journal page. Watercolour pencils and ink.
Not to worry as I have finally got my holiday and I have three, wonderful, fantastic and much-anticipated weeks off, where I can just relax and make all kinds of art. How fabulous is that, I can’t think of the last time I had three weeks just to chill out. You will be getting a lot of posts from me during this time as I share all the things I will be doing.
I saw this great picture of a pumpkin with this wild twisty stem and just had to draw it and then matched it to this fabulous pattern, I love the autumn colours and the country feel to this picture.
I found them all on Pinterest where I am collecting the best array of pictures and pins. See me there under Karen Bailey.
Karen
Karen Bailey Studio 
This is gorgeous Karen! The colours you have chosen are so warm and autumnal, just right with the pumpkin. I can understand how much you enjoyed the repetition of creating the background, I enjoy that sort of thing too! Enjoy your holiday, hope you will feel quite restored by the end of it.
Thanks Anna, already relaxing and making art.
I know what you mean about the meditative nature of rendering repetition. It is quite comforting isn’t it. The ordered pattern behind contrasts with the wild pumpkin…maybe a metaphor for the different extremes of our human nature.
That is very deep Julie, but I like it. To be wild and adventurous you need a safe and ordered base to launch from. I am lucky I have a great and supportive family to be my ordered base, such a comfort to someone who does some wild things. Karen
This is beautiful! I love everything about it.
Oh, how kind, thank you so much. Karen
Hi Karen, this fills me with admiration, one day my sketch book might look so interesting….. Enjoy your days off, I have found you on Pinterest, I am there too under Sue Hagley if you want to look at my collections. Best wishes. Sue
I found you on Pinterest also, how much fun is this, I will enjoy browsing your collection. I am glad you liked the drawing, this is only my second journal apart from my Paris trip, so it is all new to me. I never used them before, I was always too intimidated by drawing in a book, what if I mess up, what if I want to use the picture in another way? But this one is working for me and I am finding it fun. Karen