Category: scratchboard drawing

daily paintings, Pen and Ink Drawing, scratchboard drawing, storytelling art, whimsy

Venice Beach Boardwalk 1995

Michele B. Naquaiya

This is a scratchboard drawing I did from life back in the day. I used to sit and watch the world go by. The boardwalk was the place to be. It was very entertaining. If I can ever get my act together, I’ll put these sketches into a little book.

AI Art, scratchboard drawing

Chocolate Pie…Your Choice

Michele B. Naquaiya

In this post I am offering up a choice for you. It’s not to eat. I can’t do that but I can
offer several AI versions of chocolate pie with whipped cream and a cherry on top.

Version A The light source is on the left side, casting nice heavy shadows. The plate has a striped flange which looks carved out, with the glaze pooling around the interior. There is a strong colorful shadow on the table and the highlight on the plate has a warm glow. Also lower right shows the reflection of the crust.
Version B – the light is on the right side, see the shadows. also AI has interpreted the pink shadows as a pink plate. and made the table blue. The cherry leans to the light and has a bulbous tip. The top of the pie is shiny like a glaze and notice the texture of the chocolate interior.
Version C This version of the pie piece is deeper and the whipped cream does not look very real because of the many soft layers. Notice the ridges in the pie crust giving it the appearance of graham cracker crust rather than pie dough. The pattern in the plate is also different. Also, there are small whisps of pink in the table top. which are symbolic reflections of the pinky plate in abstraction.
This is the Original scratchboard. Look closely and see how black was scratched away to reveal white kaolin clay underneath. The scratched areas were painted with colored inks and a tiny brush. The light source is coming from directly above. See how the shadows are cast. This piece was only 5″ tall.

Which one do you like? If you ask me, I like all of them because they each have their own personality. Isn’t that a big factor in art? The point of this exercise is to learn to look closely at things, whether it’s a Classic Yellow Mustang or a simple piece of pie.