Monday, April 27, 2009

Drawing with Edna

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil & pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil & pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil & pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil & pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil & pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol

These five drawings are from the last two sessions, April 7 and April 14.  The first three drawings are variations on a theme from a morning session.

In February Cathy and I went to Houston to see our new grandson.  While we were there, I visited a few galleries to show the drawings.  I even left a free sample drawing at one gallery and sent a free sample drawing to another gallery.  I usually wait a month to follow up.  When I did, all I could get with one gallery is a message machine.  With the second gallery I left a message with a receptionist.  Nothing there.  You may say that the economy is too bad to hustle artwork.  We spent a week in Houston, Texas.  I don’t think the folks there even know there’s a recession in the rest of the world.  As long as the rest of the world uses oil, Houston just seems to hum along.

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Monday, April 6, 2009

Drawing with Edna

Untitled Drawing, personage, 29″ x 23″ (74cm  x 58cm), pastel and charcoal pencil on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm  x 58cm), pastel and charcoal pencil on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm  x 58cm), pastel and charcoal pencil on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm  x 58cm), pastel and charcoal pencil on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm  x 58cm), pastel and charcoal pencil on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm  x 58cm), pastel and charcoal pencil on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm  x 58cm), pastel and charcoal pencil on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm  x 58cm), pastel and charcoal pencil on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm  x 58cm), pastel and charcoal pencil on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm  x 58cm), pastel and charcoal pencil on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol

Edna and I got together at her studio last Thursday, April 2.  We only got together to draw once in March.  From the March session and the one before in February, we had six drawings.  We did four last Thursday.  The ten drawings are above. The April 2 drawings are the last four.  For several months we have put off signing some works until the following session.  When we’re done with a drawing we’re not always sure about it.  The image is “strange” or “unfamiliar.”  The following session we look at the drawing again.  Occasionally we make a very minor adjustment or two like lengthening a line or erasing into an area.   We wonder what made us hesitate to sign the drawing.  The drawings, we think, are coming from a deeper (?) place, whatever that means.  For my part, after the first mark is on the paper, I don’t “think” anymore.  I just react to what’s already there.  I put a mark where I understand the other marks on the paper tell me to put a mark.

Monday, tomorrow, Cathy and I drive down to Las Cruces to pick up the flower drawings from the Las Cruces Museum.  We are taking plenty to read and the book on tape we didn’t finish listening to when we took the work down a couple of months ago.  Ugh.

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