In loving memory

This week challenge touches me deeply. My wife and I lost a member of my wife's family to breast cancer. It happened several years ago, and the loss is still present, even very present, in our lives.

It touches me so deep, that I couldn't draw anything specific for this challenge. Drawing is still not an open expression channel for me.
But I did have something I drew several days ago, and suddenly it seemed most appropriate. I just had to add the colors to it. A second drawing is also added, which was created around the same time.

I also attach a tune I composed right after the loss. I was simply playing my guitar and it came out by itself. It is called "Road Unknown"

Yuma flavours

A new pattern, a new journey.
Welcome Yuma by Akua, a very nice pattern for the weekly challenge.

A nice, flowing pattern, which is elusive almost by nature. No strict "rules" of where to put the lines, and a flow that is created by the artist, and not as a direct "following of the pattern".

How do I know? because several attempts showed me the inherent (and sometimes hidden) tension between a pattern and an artist.
Anybody can follow strict rules and create a pattern. And some patterns will look just fine.
But for the "wow", for the flow, for the intricacies and complexities - for this you need an artist hand and an artist eye. Some of it can be gained by practice, and it seems that some is just gifted to us in different measures.

The weekly challenge for me is a fascinating place to experience this spectrum - between pattern and art. With so many degrees of freedom in the middle.

Here is my two creations for this week. The first is using YUMA in the traditional way, while the second is inspired bu YUMA to and something different is created.

 

One Love

My response for this week's challenge.
I created a new pattern for it, so this is actually a UMT + LGBT :)

String-ent Tile

Here is my response to this week's challenge.  Strings in drawing do not blend well with me. I much prefer a free-spirit doodling, and feels the string confines me. So I decided to take this challenge head on, and explore this out-of-my-confort-zone string thingy.

Went better than expected I must say, I still don't like the idea of a string, and immediately after I had to draw another two sketches with no borders. But I did discover it is possible for me.

So without further ado, here it is