Drawing with Edna

Untitled Drawing, 29" x 23" (74cm x 58cm), charcoal, black pastel on toned Strathmore rag 2 ply Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29" x 23" (74cm x 58cm), charcoal, black pastel on toned Strathmore rag 2 ply Bristol
Edna and I got together last Friday afternoon, October 26, to draw some more. Cathy, my wife, particularly liked the top drawing. We're still working on the toned ground. Edna and I only worked in the afternoon last Friday. I had spent the morning drawing from the model. Interestingly enough, I found that the two and half hours I drew from the model in no way helped me or "warmed me up" for the afternoon. This is the first time we did not spend the morning playing around with drawing. I understand now that this is the time we work out the images that appear in the afternoon. Each of us has a dozen or so old "morning" drawings tacked to our studio walls, but these drawings are "cold." In the morning following our usual routine, we may take some of the "cold" images and "warm" them up or work up some new imagery for the afternoon, when we work to get the finished drawings. Those warmed up images were missing Friday afternoon. That made the drawing more difficult.













































































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