drawing training and painting something new

My art teacher told us that you never forget what you have learned in drawing, you can only get better. My Facebook artist friend Lizzy Love has shared a link to a you tube video with a series of drawing lessons. Focus is on learning to omit the schemes we have of conceptions of the world and to draw what we see. Here is one of the drawings I have worked on (WIP)

The other WIP I share with you today is a painting containing various objects and faces that have come to my mind through visual impressions from my surroundings or coming "out of the painting".

Is it art that I'm making?

I am working a lot on finding the right way to express myself artistically. At the same time I am just training my drawing skills. There are so many possibilities and I like to experiment with media and tools, just playing. But I often feel that it is not the right thing I am doing. It is not art that I am making, just drawings and paintings not worked through thoroughly, without a deeper meaning.

Maybe I just have to give art the time it deserves?

Then of course I have other things to do, important also, like finishing my education. That is why I do not paint all the time, just a quick sketch here and there. Yesterday my paintbrush called for me, so I just had to use it for yet another experiment. 

And this morning as a warm up for the day, I worked on this painting of a woman lying down. I found her picture on the blog: http://womenpaintingwomen.blogspot.de

I covered the sketchbook page with acrylic and started sketching with a pastel, bye and bye adding graphite water color pencil, more pastel, acrylic and pastel... At times I thought it would become a total mess, but at this stage I like the abstract expression of the painting. 

What do you think?

As the above painting was not really finished, I worked on a bit. Still something to do, I think.

The last Photo is a sketch of some tiny owls, they made me smile big, when I saw them. Maybe they will be integrated in my story with Rugana on her mission?

Wish you all a happy PPF and a weekend as you'd like to have it - joyful, relaxed, quiet or full of people.