Good morning!

I'm a 47 year old married female and just rediscovered a talent for drawing this past October 2006. I stay at home, after a full professional life of doing computer support. I am retired now, and hope to never support another computer in my life.. (read burnout) Luckily, my husband is jewel enough to let me stay home for a little while. I'm truly blessed at this point in my life.

I started out with graphite, which I prefer, actually. Charcoal is fun, but I have yet to graduate it to the better paper. I'm still stuck with newsprint with the charcoal. Color is next on our teachers agenda - I have all the supplies, but I don't want to break into them. I tried oil pastels, pastels and now watercolor is next in our little class - I have yet to crack one open.

I have lots of fears that I am suddenly dealing with, and I never really knew I had these fears until now.

Fear of color - fear of strange ideas - fear of not being able to "produce" something - fear of losing my ability to draw - fear of making something hideous.

My art teacher tells me I need to be nicer to myself.

I hope to learn a lot here.. already, I can see there is much to learn here!!

Check out my gallery, and also on www.pbase.com/ruth_t where all my other drawings are posted.

Peace...
Ruth (Rosebud11)

Welcome Ruth,
Drawspace is an awesome site with equally awesome people. You will learn a lot here. Let me know if there is anything, I can do for you….

John

My advice is to draw what interests you and make sure to have fun with it. I looked at your gallery and your work is neat.

bob

welcome to drawspace Ruth .. I am glad you have a kind husband to let you have a break from work give him plenty of hugs and kisses
I looked at your gallery and I think you are doing a good job and cant wait to get to know you better ..please try one of our challenges

Hello Rosebud - welcome to drawspace. You will find a lot of encouragement here - any help you might need is at your fingertips. Folks are very friendly here and very helpful. There are a lot of people here who are just like yourself. Hope to see you join in on some of the challenges.

I see that you are from Vicksburg, how wonderful! - my husband and I just spent our vacation there a few weeks ago, it was our second visit to your town. I used my pictures that I took there as the drawing challenge.

Welcome to Drawspace!
Paulette

Thank you, all - for your kind notes. I will try to find the challenge, I am assuming it's under General somewhere?

Peace on Earth.
Ruth

Here is a link to my current challenge, Weekly drawing challenge May 20 - May 26. There are several others going on also.
Paulette

Wow.. ask and ye shall receive! I'll try the antlers tomorrow.. I'm sleeeeepy now. Talk to y'all tomorrow!

:-)

Welcome to Drawspace, Ruth. Don't be afraid to explore with art. THats the main way you learn is by your mistakes. Color is the same with pencil. The worst part of drawing or painting with color is mixing and you have all the time in the world for that. Just remember it takes practice. Easiest way to use color is start with colored pencils. Learning the shading starting out with them is pretty easy as well start with 3 same colors in different shades (of the same color), and there you go. start from light to dark as with graphite. There are many wonderful artist here who I am sure would have no problems helping you learn everything you want to know, and as far as other websites with more information we all have tons of them..LOL. So hope to see you around and by no time flat, you'll be as good or better than all of us.

Welcome to Drawspace Rosebud...I admire your drawings.