Reflect
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 9” ink, oil sanguine, chalk and a bit of black graphite on tinted paper
Fountain Pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink
Found Faces
Daily practice. Sketching more faces I will probably never know more than as viewed on a laptop screen.
11”x 9” ink and wash
Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point
End with a Dance
A left hander’s path
moving from right to left.
Sketched a couple of days ago in a session with a favorite model. It’s been a while.
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
Faces
Daily sketching. Sketching family. Three portraits of the same granddaughter, and her mom.
12”x 9” ink and wash
Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point
Sharing A Page
Might not be sharing.
Could be two views
of a story swirling
somewhere else.
Daily sketching from vintage photos viewed on my laptop screen.
14”x 11” ink and wash.
Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point
Green Canoe
Escaped to way back when.
Paddled around my islands
while sketching a memory
of way back then.
Yesterday’s sketching escape.
12”x 9” ink and watercolor
Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point
Her and Not Her
A stranger on a wall
that isn’t there at all.
Placed her in a memory
knowing she is someone else.
Daily sketching of another her in these days of isolation. From a vintage photo on the laptop screen.
17”x 14” ink and wash
Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point
In the Trees
Some interest in tree houses was noted by a grandchild. Finally got around to thinking about tree houses too.
9”x 13” ink and watercolor
Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point
In a place where time
doesn’t have to exist.
It does.
Don’t let the light invade.
It will.
Pretend.
Sketched while thinking too much about time, from a vintage photo on the laptop screen in these days as isolation lingers on.
12”x 10” ink and wash
Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point
Feet Up
Daily sketching. Had the urge to stand when sketching this pose on a revolving stage. Feeling out of shape.
Sketched from reference photos on a revolving stage in “Virtual Pose 3”. A substitute for life drawing.
12”x 9” ink, oil sanguine and chalk and on tinted paper
Fountain Pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink
When You Know
The conversation.
And now they know
too.
Daily practice. Sketching faces of those I will probably never know more than as viewed on a laptop screen.
12”x 9” ink and wash on Bristol
Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point
Wandering
Wandering in the dark
from melancholy
to possible.
chancing being caught
in the shadows.
This sketch started from a pose sketched before in a life drawing session.
7”x 13” ink and watercolor
Fountain Pen: Platinum Carbon fine point
