Surrender

Surrender

Surrounded.

Condemned.

Tired.

Begging.

Who will offer relief?

Just make it okay.

Someone.

Four short (5 min.) identical poses surrendering in different directions. From a session with “JQ” a couple of days ago.

Fountain Pen: ECO TWSBI with Platinum Carbon ink

The Beginnings

The Beginnings

The search in the night

Eventually just wanting it

to end.

A stillness to set in

before it all begins

again.

The short gesture poses from the beginning of a session with “VE” at the beginning of the week, or over the weekend, depending on when a week really begins.

Both: 14”x 11” ink

Fountain Pen: ECO TWSBI with Platinum Carbon ink

Waiting For The Storm

Waiting For The Storm

Considered going darker.

Decided instead on

imaginary shores.

Wish in hind sight

I’d changed the shirt

he was sitting on

to green or maybe blue.

Sketched these two images of “JQ” posing yesterday in a session surrounded by other sketchers within a round room. Had a few minutes left over in each of the poses to place him somewhere, other than where we were.

11”x 18” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pens: Platinum Carbon fine point.

Caught In a Web

Caught In a Web

Almost an insult to the spider’s

meticulously spun web.

A true artist at capturing

it’s prey.

As opposed to these chaotic

carelessly laid lines,

hoping a vague likeness

might be captured

somewhere within.

Maybe a stretch. She could just a well be on her back on a bed. Except this was a standing pose, probably held too long.

A sketch of another pose from a session with “VE” just the other day.

5”x 11” ink

Fountain Pens: Platinum Carbon fine point.

Distraction

Distraction

Holding the moment,

almost too long.  

Almost forgetting.

Forgetting where.

Forgetting who

to return to.

One of my sketches yesterday, in a session with “VE”, in a space hidden down at the end of a dead end street, behind a yellow door.

14”x 11” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pens: Platinum Carbon fine and extra point.