Ok, I’m way behind in getting some images uploaded…long story, will update this over the weekend, but here’s the last image I was working on yesterday. I’ve been drawing, but had to modify to cope with lots of stuff going on. This one has lots of meaning for me, but will revise this post with that later this week/weekend. Here’s an image. Direction in drawing has become very integrated into medical treatment now, and I’ll explain that, too. I may yet tweak this one a little bit more, but this one was done in pen & ink, watercolor, and colored pencil. The book is actually just a retail catalog that someone had discarded that was on fairly heavy paper and the size seemed suitable for my purposes (app 7.5” square). On some pages, like this one, I have glued some cheap manilla-colored children’s drawing paper over the catalog pages to give it some thickness. I use this book for random doodling like this. Odd how I often do some of my favorite drawings in recycled books like this. I have a smaller one that I’ve been working in, that I’m going to have to rebind, as the painted pages have torn away from the stitching somewhat.
For the most part these drawings at least start and progress for quite a while as automatic drawing, and later compositions arise out of them as the image begins to take form. If I had to plan this picture, I probably couldn’t have done anything that I would enjoy nearly so much or that would mean as much to me. That process of not planning that seems to have been consistently successful in my drawing apparently still holds true, although I did set an intention to use a limited pallet, primarily blue(without regard to what the actual image might become).
Pretty Real Behind the Veil 