Lene Daugaard Tegning

"Story behind the image"

I've decided to add a little "story behind the image" for my future drawings and paintings. I have already done this in a few sentenses about a couple of my drawings, but plan to do it on each one. I hope you'll enjoy that "extra look" into my studies....It will appear only on this Blog.

From the drawing table

For the last period I've been working on a graphite drawing, that I intend to submit to a competition, in case it all turns out well. It shows 3 frisian horses on white background. Lots of pencilmarks I tell you :) I'll post the final drawing later in the year...

A small video of me drawing :)

ACEO cards

ACEO (Art Cards, Editions & Originals) is growing more and more popular.

Anybody can afford to buy art when these nice, small cards (measure 2.5" x 3.5" (64 x 89 mm) are an option.

Very popular to collect, you can gather them in maps or frame - individually or many - for decorating.

So far I have 20 different prints (limited editions) to purcase. Take a look - perhaps there is something for you.

I plan to also do some original ACEO-cards (one of a kind), so bookmark my page and have a look later ;)

http://www.artcardswanted.com/artist.cfm?MID=1411

Description about my cards: ArtCard from original drawing or painting. Printed on white, smooth 230 gsm card. Title and artist-name printed on back. Edition no. written on back. (copyright sign not on print).

Gap in postings !

Now, why these gaps in my postings ? (like between my latest 2 postings)...As I want to keep my art-blogs about art and nothing else - I can still answer this, because it has to do with art. Not that I haven't worked on art (even not as much as I want to !) - but now and then you just make something that wasn't worth the effort. I mean, spending a lot of hours, not willing to give it up, but in the end have to realize; not for public view ! Still, art-wise, these occasionally disasters can be a learning-step as well as succesfull pieces. Therefor I don't throw out such drawings or paintings. Nevertheless, just a bit unsatisfied with the hours spend..
After that last disapointment I had 20 (!) days not being at my drawingtable. Horrible for my state of mind I tell you ! I then finished the "Black Chevy" you can see in my last post and finally started a new drawing .... hopefully next time, I can post before a month from now !

American Dream - Black Chevy

For a long time I have wanted to do a series with classic american cars. Now I've finished the first: "Black Chevy". It is 15 x 26 cm, colored pencils on matboard. More drawings in the series will follow in time. Quite different from drawing and painting fur (!) but I am facinated by these classic cars, I find that they - visually - overpowers all later car-design !

Chevrolet - Bel Air

"Performance of Power"

My lion drawing is finished. The title is "Performance of Power". I love titles, and I found this was a

ppropiate with his attitude !

new album

I have added a new album in my Picasa-web gallery.
It contains simple whimsical, imagninative drawings - hope you enjoy it
A direct link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Le.Daugaard/WhimsicalImaginative

"Hidden Beauty" - colored pencils

Earlier I mentioned, that I would show my cp painting entered in FMP Annual member show. The competition has found its winners. Even I was not among the chosen, I find this piece to be an important step in my journey as an artist.

The painting is on Stonhenge paper, approx. 9 x 13 inches and took more that 40 hours to complete.

Even I am facinated by waterlilly-flowers; while painting this I actually found the most interesting to depict was the large leaves and the look of what is "under the water".

"Performance of Power" - Male Lion

I've started this drawing in colorpencils on Hahnemühle Nostalgie paper, another cp-artist recommended the paper. At first I found the paper felt quite thin (190 gr). But it turned out to be very fine to work on.
It'll take several layers of cp and is easy to erase with a battery operated eraser. The paper has a light yellow tone compared to many other white papers.

I am drawing the whole lion, size approx. 12 x 17 inches (29,7 x 42 cm). I use FaberCastell Polychromos and Derwent Artist' colorpencils. "Performance of Power" / Male Lion.