quietly creating
Barbara Wanhill
Category: drawing
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In half an hour I will have gained an hour. This is a blessing. Because I have wasted so many hours in the hours that were September, October and now November. Between the faltering, there have been hours of extreme busyness. With work mostly, but also getting the garden ready for winter. The sketchbook has…
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A document of summer mark-making progress. Take away: it was very satisfying seeing these pages develop. Unexpected and somewhat joy-filled. How about that! The parameters for summer drawing were: pen, no pencil pre-plannning, botanical and from life, not photos. I began with a Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Fineliner 0.1 at the beginning of July, but then…
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Continuing like that procrastinating teenager (I never was) cramming to finish an English assignment the night before: here I compose another mostly rushed blog post before the calendar turns to the next month. Even though the text is rough hewn, the thoughts have been mulled over for awhile. I’ve been thinking about negative space quite…