Gift

~ stephanieabower

I’ve been crazy busy for weeks with day job work and planning workshops for this year, so it’s high time that I posted a sketch. This was a present for my neighbor –whose house is literally magazine-ready beautiful and all decked out for the holidays–as a way to say thank you.

I quickly fell into a slow and steady pace…it took almost 3 hours for the linework and maybe an hour and a half for the color. Anyone who has taken my workshops knows that I start all my sketches with a simple rectangle, or the “Big Shape.” Here it was the rectangle at the back of the dining room. Next, I locate my vanishing point and eye level, and in three steps, I’ve got everything in place for the entire drawing. I worked in layers going left to right to minimize smearing of my 2B pencil, cleaning up, darkening and correcting lines as I go. Detail comes last. The hardest part? The shape of that table!

It was a lovely, quiet moment during the holidays in which I forgot everything else and just focused on this sketch, calming and restoring my soul.

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8 thoughts on “Gift”

  1. Beautiful, Stephanie! I love your depiction of that reflective table surface! I would know your work anywhere. When I go to any doctor’s appointment or waiting room, Ingrab one of your books on the way out. Micro learning! All the best to you in 2025!

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  3. Is this an image of your dining room or hers? It is a wonderful, beautiful gift. I bet she was overjoyed…..I surely would be!!! Simply GORGEOUS!

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    1. I wish it were mine, but that is my neighbor’s house. I keep telling her she should give up her day job and start working as a designer…she is truly a Martha Stewart…
      Thanks for your comment!
      S

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