Ever take one of those courses that gets you so sparked you keep noticing the things you learned from it everywhere you go? Now you're busy studying peoples' prints and fabrics and gestures and poses on TV, out in the world, in the news, etc. It never ends. This was one of those courses. It's the course where Lori teaches us the important skills and life keeps bringing the examples, well past the course.

Don't know why this denim rendering turned green, but I guess denim can be green too.

 

I way enjoyed rendering the lace. I know sewing lace is lotsa work with french seams required cuz of how delicate and fragile the fabric is...so I'd rather draw it than sew it.

I had trouble making shiny and sequined swatches look renderable. Then I saw online on fabric websites they ripple them up to catch the light probably to see the shine better on a flat screen. I'd rather draw sequin and shiny fabric than sew it. Another challenging fabric to sew.

Flower prints reminded me of the clothes in the 60s....so we went there....Peter Max was huge then...and so were white collars and cuffs with printed fabrics.... and fishnets with go-go boots.

I way enjoyed rendering animal prints! They inspire wildness.

 

I'm still working on the plaid fabric renderings cuz you have to think in reverse engineering how they are rendered. What color comes first? What part of the design is added when? It's like a puzzle to think that way and I'm not great at puzzles.

Some of these drawings were done over old sketchbook pages cuz I live far from an art supply store and wanted to try the assignments anyway. If Basquiat could do it...so can we.

I did enjoy using the Molotow One 4 All White marker as all my white Signos dried up and nothing I tried revived them.

Thank you for this art life changing course, Lori!