Artwork: Zebra Zensations Mechanical Colored Pencils on a Hahnemühle YouTangle tile.
There’s an old folk song ‘Little Boxes’, that talks about neighborhoods filled with houses made of ticky tacky, that all look just the same. This is another one of the tangle drawings I did while watching movies on New Year’s Eve and when I looked at the finished piece – ticky tacky is the name that came to mind!
Doodlewash prompt: Crayons – crayon translates to pencil in French, so I’m claiming this one fits the prompt!
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This is awesome! Do you draw first then color? Or color and then draw?
Thank you, Alice! In this case, I drew first because the color pencil would clog my fiber-tipped pens.
I loved this song growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area – we assumed it was about our Daly City, near South San Francisco (don’t know if it was or wasn’t, but still just love that song!) If you haven’t heard it, it’s worth ‘googling’!
Adore the bright colors in this, Alice! It looks like city meets urban, meets farm, and water. Love your drawings!😊
Thank you, Mariam! I had Pete Seeger’s album with his version of the song. It’s such an ear worm – I can’t get it out of my head once I think about it.
Yes, I remember this song, which is why I live in an architecturally crazy house! ha.
Love this….the colors make me want to live in this neighborhood, but I suspect this might only work in Mexico where they do color better than the NW! And the lovely movement in the piece makes it wonderfully animated!
Thank you, Judy! I’ve always wondered why Portlanders want to stay with neutral, bland colors in their housing. It certainly didn’t use to be that way here.
Little boxes on the hillside and they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same… I met Pete Seeger at a mountain camp in Southern California when i was a teenager. He sang this song with us, among many others. Such a humble, accessible, warm person. I think he would have loved your interpretation of the song.
Oh what a fabulous comment! And what a fabulous memory. I never met Pete Seeger but had several of his records. Little Boxes is the song I remember best though.