Who Will Ever Know

Who Will Ever Know

Who will ever know?

Another hidden story.

It only exists within

a few minutes glimpsed

in the transfer of

many random lines.

I didn’t catch her name. She posed for a few sketches at a session I attended last night at a pub.

9”x 12” ink and chalk on tinted paper

Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

North Sea From Train

North Sea From Train

Thinking about gulls,

ruins in forest islands

between stone wall

enclosed fields,

the North Sea.

A train ride to and back

between Edinburgh and London

a few weeks ago.

Too lazy to take photos of the flashing imagery. Deciding I’d invent some images from memory or whatever the fountain pen perceived from the fragile connection it has with my brain.

A thumbnail sketch, an initial attempt. Will use paper that accepts watercolor the next time I have this urge.

11”x 9”

Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon extra fine point

Spider Web

Spider Web

Sometimes images form

in places unexpected

and then they are.

It happens when the spider

can’t decide.

A lack of confidence.

A few more lines.

Yes Sometimes.

And so this is a sketch of “EM” in a short pose from a session with her not so long ago.

9”x 12” ink and chalk on tinted paper

Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

Silent

Silent

The noise inside is deafening

with screams and curses,

and eventually tears

no one wants to hear.

Better out in this silent void

hearing the noise inside

going nowhere.

My sketch of the last pose of the day by “MA” in a session yesterday behind a yellow door.

12”x 15” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pens: Platinum Carbon extra fine and fine point

Pretending

Pretending

In the middle of a search

for someone she once

pretending to be

a million years ago,

she stops

and stops

and stops

and stops

once more.

Some warm up sketches of a bunch of short poses from a session with “MA” yesterday.

12”x 9” ink on tinted paper

Fountain Pen: ECO TWSBI with Platinum Carbon ink