From The Other Edge

From The Other Edge

When she shows up again

with some time to reflect

and the view from one side

wasn’t enough.

Yesterday afternoon “ES” was back for a second week in the same pose. I had sketched her from the left side of the studio last week. Yesterday I moved to the right and sketched her again.

12”x 18” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

Last Week From the Edge: https://tonyducesart.blogspot.com/2019/04/from-edge.html

Ignored By a Purple Crowd

Ignored By a Purple Crowd    

Sitting on a yellow blanket covered set of stools,

left me wondering what to do,

once I had her sketched in.

Probably should have placed her

on a rocky shore or in the desert.

She just wasn’t dressed for either place.

So I put her with a bunch of purple snobs

on the wrong side of a yellow….. something???

My sketch of “AL” this morning in a session with the Independent Painters Group.  

12”x 18” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

Daisy Road

Daisy Road

It was almost forgotten.

The main artery to the heart

of a past ignored for too long.

It only took a few random lines.

The boy and his fat dog

and a few imaginary friends,

should have been added too.

Another thumbnail sketch. Discovered the ink was water-soluble, when the colors insisted on being included.

6”x 4” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

River Trail

River Trail

So easily followed

in this solitary phase,

on this intimate page.

Waters to a place

hidden in once

promised dreams.

Did a number of thumbnail sketches the other day attempting to escape other tasks I should have been doing.

Didn’t realize the ink in a new pen was soluble, which enhanced the escape even more when I added a little color.

4”x 6” ink and watercolor

Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point

Like A Sculpture

Like A Sculpture

Like a sculpture

pretending with intent

to never move.

Waiting with longing

for the timer

of her connection

to the world

to go off.

A sketch of “SA” in her longest pose from the session with her in the afternoon yesterday.

11”x 14” ink and watercolor