Category — drawing

Shaun and I went to see the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art exhibition recently – we frowned thoughtfully at pictures of dead birds, cows, table settings and people in fancy clothing.

I was all excited to see an amazing exhibition and – this makes me a cretin, I know – I wasn’t all that impressed. I was expecting to see Girl with a Pearl Earring and some self portraits of Rembrandt, but those were not on offer. Worse, the upstairs portion of the gallery was all cordoned off, so for $20 I got to see a lot of grazing cows and fancy clothes.

Later, we headed to the Kingston Taphouse and had burgers and beers like the uncultured mouth-breathers we are and talk turned to my stick people cards. After two pints of Guinness I doodled the following:

Something tells me that Hallmark is not looking to sell cards in bars and pubs. If I’m wrong, please email me – there’s more smart-assery where this came from.

I’m not sure why I drew this one – maybe I’ve been listening to too much Rimsky-Korsakov?

So there it is – a random Bee Girl for this week’s drawing.

This is going to sound nauseatingly cute but, most mornings I make a lunch for Joe and put a sticky note picture on it. Oh come on, it’s adorable.

However, I got out of the habit for a few weeks about 3 months ago and when I decided to start again, it seemed like I couldn’t draw stick people anymore.

How ridiculous is that? All they are is a circle and some lines! But that morning, it was all misshapen heads and uneven arms and squiggly bodies.

I felt really disheartened. It should be simple, it’s stick people. I’m good at stick people!

After about twenty minutes and several crumpled up sticky notes, it all came back. I watched my hand make nice circles and put reasonably expressive faces in them with proper bodies, arms, and legs.

I don’t claim to be an artist, but I really like drawing stick people. It’s fun and it’s a nice outlet; I’d have been pretty sad if my “talent” for drawing them had somehow evaporated.

Plus, Sticky Note Friday would be a total bust without the sticky notes.