Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Dance



 Dance

 

More daily sketching. Viewing my laptop screen and pretending the model is posing, in these isolated times. Viewing a You Tube Daily Life Drawing video. 

12”x 9” ink, oil sanguine, chalk and a bit of black graphite on tinted paper

Fountain Pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Dead End Empty Street


 

Dead End Empty Street

 

A quick recent sketch of the last of the green on an empty dead end street at the end of of an isolated summer. 

12”x 9” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

Monday, September 28, 2020

Performance


 

Performance

 Two forms of Independence on display. 

The more important is the escape 

from a too familiar crowd. 

 

More daily sketching. Viewing my laptop screen and pretending the model is posing, in these isolated times. Viewing a You Tube Daily Life Drawing video. 

9”x 12” ink, oil sanguine, chalk and a bit of black graphite on tinted paper

Fountain Pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

Sunday, September 27, 2020

A Sunday Morning

 


A Sunday Morning

Reminded of those mornings 

They seem so long ago. 

The Sunday mornings before 

so much was assumed.

 

Sketching what appeared on the laptop screen while searching for vintage photos in these isolated times. 

10”x 13” ink and wash

Fountain Pen: Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

Saturday, September 26, 2020

Smiling for Someone


 

Smile for Someone

 Feel like I know her 

now, maybe just a bit.

An unknown face smiling 

for someone else.

 

Sketching. Found her smiling on my laptop screen.

9”x 13” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pen: Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

Friday, September 25, 2020

A Dramatic Rise

 


A Dramatic Rise

 

More daily sketching. Viewing my laptop screen and pretending the model is posing, in these isolated times. Viewing a You Tube Daily Life Drawing video. 

12”x 9” ink, oil sanguine, chalk and a bit of black graphite on tinted paper

Fountain Pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Daisies

 


Daisies

 

Decided to sketch them. A cousin recently posted a photo with Daisies somewhere along a Newfoundland coast. This was the closest I could get to being in the same place. 

7”x 10” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pen: Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Other's Faces

 


Other’s Faces

 They knew them first. 

Wanted to attempt 

to know them too.


 

Continuing to sketch faces. Sketched from images of others.

17”x 14” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pens: Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point and TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink