Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Art Works (via Mowser)

Views from the road.

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I like the phrase "views from the road" -- it makes me think of highways and road trips and hikes and discoveries.

I had the opportunity to design a blog header for a the Views From The Road blog, and found myself with the delightful "task" of coming up with some artwork.

The header that was chosen of the three created was this one. I went for a "North Dakota" road look, the nearly flat road going off into a wide horizon with the only trees being the utility poles that line so many township roads here. North Dakota roads are the perfect place to learn to draw one-point perspective. The owner of the blog, who hails from North Dakota originally, may have recognized that flat, open road that opened up clearly ahead, no obstructions.

The second graphic I drew was monochromatic and mellow, using three slight variations of blue and a blue pen. My aim was to give the graphic an unstudied air about it, the idea of the open road metaphorically hazy before me and in my mind.

The third graphic is the one you see here in this post. This is more the traditional watercolor study that visitors to this website see periodically. Using watercolor to loosely lay out the colors, I followed up with my gray-blue pen and created a forest road with a destination unknown and unseen, hidden behind curves and trees.

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