After Sketch

After Sketch

She was there all along

with flowers in her hair

waiting to be,

and wondering

I’m sure,

when she

would appear.

A couple of days ago “D” was posing again in the same pose she had been in the week before. I spent most of the session attempting to do another full figure sketch from a different vantage point in the studio. I eventually gave up with about twenty minutes left and let my pen wander sort of all over the place until she appeared just before the session ended.

11”x 14” ink

Previous week: https://tonyducesart.blogspot.com/2019/03/music-and-flowers-twice.html

Retired

Retired

Sketched “R” in a session this morning in a pose he proposed. He even supplied the beer. So, of course, I placed him on the shore.

18”x 12” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

Between Bays

Between Bays

A bay of invented ghosts

and a bay of imagined promises.

Solitude in hindsight

was on the actual

journey between.

It’s Spring. Took some time yesterday morning between invented and remembered bays to pretend I was on a shore somewhere in between.

Islands Off Solitude

17”x 8” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

Looking Back

Looking Back

A sketch from a session with “SA” not so long ago.

9”x 12” ink, oil sanguine and chalk on tinted paper

Another Step

Another Step

Another step taken forward

through an imaginary

random colored haze.

My sketch of a standing pose “E” always does so well.

From a session with her yesterday afternoon.

11”x 14” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point