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Organized Chaos

May 01st, 2006 | Category: Everyday Matters, Pen and Ink

I drew this last week one night before I went to bed. During the week I sleep on the couch at my grandparent’s house and I had all my junk on the coffee table. I was reading Karl Marx for one of my history papers and I had all kinds of notes strewn about, as well as my water bottle and my purse. I was thinking of Everyday Matters Challenge #9 when I drew this. The topic was “organized chaos” and chaotic is definitely how I am feeling right now. I have a month left of school before I graduate and I still have a bunch of things to finish. To keep myself feeling sane, I have all my assignments on a big list and I cross things off as I complete them. At least then I feel like I’m accomplishing something.

5 Comments so far

  1. Karen Winters May 1st, 2006 3:50 pm

    Nice rendering of that bottle Carolyn – I think organized chaos is a good description here. You’re down to the finish line – congratulations.

  2. melissawoodland May 1st, 2006 4:23 pm

    I enjoyed looking through your sketching here and at flickr. This drawing has a nice simplicity to it, with the linework suggesting texture and volume. I’ll be back.

  3. Sioux May 2nd, 2006 8:57 am

    I like your sketch…especially the way you did the folds and shadows. Those are hard for me.

  4. Jeet May 2nd, 2006 12:44 pm

    I agree with Karen – the bottle was the first thing I noticed as well! As John Cheever said: “Art is the triumph over chaos”, and this is a fine example of that!

  5. Marilyn May 3rd, 2006 10:04 am

    Very nice. The hatch marks are well done and show the shadows very well.

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