Starting in a new direction.

Last year when I started this blog I gave myself the assignment to learn the skills needed to draw the pictures in my mind. Although I’ve been hard at work and indeed learned a lot of skills I have had the nagging feeling that I wasn’t succeeding. I wasn’t satisfied with my results.
The last few months I’ve been thinking about my last drawing and about some of the artsites I reviewed. I realized that the problem is that I’ve been concentrating on learning skills necessary to draw the right shapes.
Turns out that I’m not that interested in shapes. I’m much more interested in colors and in rhythm of colors. The way colors blend together to give you an impression of the world.

For my next drawing, I decided, I would concentrate on color instead of shape. And then I did nothing for something like a week. For some reason it seemed very frightening to do this drawing.
It took me a while to figure out why.
Until now I’ve always relied on my photographic memory. Even with the few abstract drawings I did I had a clear picture in my mind of what I was going to draw. Granted I didn’t always succeed in drawing what I wanted but I always knew what it was supposed to be. But not this time.
This time I only knew that I would probable use the colors blue and gray and I knew that I wanted to draw undefined shapes. I had no I idea what the drawing would look like when I was finished
I hoped that this drawing would give me some ideas about the next one.

Orange fish

It did give me some ideas about the next one.
While drawing I realized that I could get a very nice effect if I were to start in one of the corners.