Art Blog: A Drawing a Day

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The web content is an art blog post titled "A Drawing a Day" by Hermione Wilds Writes, exploring the concept of rain through a series of sketches and reflective text.

Abstract

The art blog post "Art Blog: A Drawing a Day" by Hermione Wilds Writes delves into the author's personal connection with rain. Through a collection of abstract sketches and descriptive captions, the post captures the essence of rain's rhythm, its cultural significance, and the sensory experience it provides. The author reminisces about childhood memories of playing in April showers and the tactile sensation of rain, which is often described using various metaphors. The post also touches on the changing language and metaphors related to rain, and how certain phrases have fallen out of fashion. Accompanied by musical influences such as Olovson's "The Beginning" and Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending," the author conveys an optimistic view of rain as a cleansing and renewing force.

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The author enjoys the sound of rain and considers it a pleasant noise with a distinct rhythm.
Rain is associated with nostalgic childhood memories for the author, including playing in puddles and wearing colorful rain gear.
The author appreciates the way rain can visually alter the environment, creating an out-of-focus effect.
The post suggests that rain is a multifaceted experience, capable of consoling and renewing, as well as simply being a light drizzle or a heavy downpour.
The author laments the decline in the use of colorful language and metaphors to describe rain, noting a shift towards more literal expressions in modern language.
Rain is portrayed in a positive light, as something joyous and optimistic, with the power to cleanse and paint the world anew.
The author invites readers to reflect on their own experiences and descriptions of rain.

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Drawing the sound of rain makes me think that there is a certain rhythm to the rain. That incessant patter is a noise I quite like.

“Rain” Out of focus. Sketch is by the author Hermione Wilds Writes

It may surprise you to discover that I like the rain. As a child, I spent many happy moments in the rain, splashing in puddles. In my birthday month of April, it always rained. We used to get April showers. These are rare things now in the UK, but then they came often; sharp short showers of rain, followed by sunshine. We wore a brightly colored mackintosh (a coat), a sou’wester, and wellies.

I enjoy the idea of the way the rain sometimes takes us out of focus when we look through it.

Many times, as a child, I walked in the rain. The rain is said in our culture to come down in “sheets”. You can have a blanket of clouds. But I am sure I have heard of a “blanket of rain”. But certainly buckets. Buckets of rain. Nowadays, we don’t tend to use buckets so much and that colloquialism seems to have gone out of fashion, as have many metaphors. We don’t seem to speak in metaphors so much, the reemphasize of words, “Out out” and “in in” seems to have become popularised. I often hear the terms on the radio when people describe what they are doing to DJs.

Rain tends to console. It wraps you up in its watery elements and drenches you to the skin. Afterward, the sun comes out and everything seems new.

We used to describe types of rain as different. Rain that drenches you to the skin and rain that doesn’t seem to bother you; light rain. And rain can be measured and some drops are not as large as others, so there is truth in that.

Soon the water recedes, pouring away down specially designed spaces and into gullies. Then the sun comes out

Slightly out of focus abstract of “Rain” by the author, Hermione Wilds Writes

I was listening to. a track by Olovson, ‘The Beginning’, a new release while drawing this, and rain suggested itself.

Out of focus: “Rain”. Sketch is by the author Hermione Wilds Writes

“Rain”. Sketch is by the author Hermione Wilds Writes

Rain is not unoptimistic. For me, rain is a joyous experience. This music, too, tends towards optimistic tones. As if the water were cleaning everything. Painting everything new with watery brushes, the way ‘The Lark Ascending’ suggests birdsong.

What does rain say to you? How do you describe it?

Art Blog: A Drawing a Day

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