I’ve never posted a drawing-in-progress; it seems like cheating. Finishing a piece is a real rush for me and considering it before completion is rushing dessert, but here it is. I feel this is a sea change in the underlayment of my drawings and I’m enjoying working over the black, faintly gnarly structure.
I’ll post follow-ups as work continues. As an aside, WordPress wanted to change underlayment to undergarment, and maybe that’s the way to think about it.
The New Year is almost upon us – must be time to start a new daybook. I use the Exacompta “Space 24″ weekly desk planner. At @ 6 x 9 inches it has plenty of space to record weather, appointments and lists day to day, a generous “notes” area, and the paper lends itself beautifully to drawings. Meetings, conference calls and on-line seminars are just doodles waiting to happen.
The amount of stress relief available from a black pen on smooth, heavy, finely finished paper is amazing. The Exacompta books start with the month of December of the prior year, so I’ll be switching over to 2011 tomorrow after recording notes about the “Boxing Day Blizzard of 2010″ (15″ of snow over two days here on the island) and what we had to eat on Christmas day in 2010. It’s always a wonderful feeling to start in on newly opened pages. Below is a small beastie from a short staff meeting in 2010 – Happy New Year!
Study after Pontormo’s Madonna and Child with Young St. John, charcoal on board, 20″ x 16″
Grape jelly in the cool winter light of the hoop house. Pastel on board, 16 x 20.
Life has been pretty creative, lately.
Strawberries and Grapes 20″ x 16″ pastel on board
The autumn studio is home to still life set-ups featuring pumpkins,poppies and pink, angled October light – fodder for big paintings during the long, cold winter ahead.
Hansa roses and a sterling tea set on a sunny summer afternoon. Pastel on board, 18′ x 24″.
This is a study for a larger work that also features with roses, watermelon, green grapes and tiger lilies. I thought I ought to be familiar with some of the basic parts before I start on the larger chaos.
Tea Pot Study, 14" x 14", pastel on board
My contribution to the August 12 auction of art work on skateboards as a fundraiser for a free skate park in Bar Harbor.
Dude. Totally.
Deck front
Deck back