Some more drawings
A few drawings from the last three days - two done in India ink Pitt pens, and the last in graphite.
First one from yesterday of mamushka/matrioshka nesting dolls. I used black, sepia and sanguine for this, and tried to render the patterns on the dolls in the three colours - the originals have both red, black, blue, green and yellow. I should have decided before I began filling in the designs on them whether I wanted to indicate shape and highlights - now it's a bit half-heartedly done in the areas of solid colour, without following through on the rest of the doll.
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I called this drawing More of the Same, which is what I keep getting in my life at the moment.
The second drawing is from today. I went to town for a meeting and had to wait half an hour for the bus on my way home, so I had a cup of tea and a draw at a corner café:
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There were two people sitting outside the window at a small table on the sidewalk - I think they were mother and son. I started drawing them but was soon distracted by the more interesting subject of the surroundings - as a result the background is not drawn in the same perspective or to scale, but I filled the page in all the way up (or down) to the two figures anyway. A few years ago I would still have been unable to do this type of street scene - somehow I could never manage to keep the right balance between detail and the larger lines. Now it just happens. As a result I've lost my former almost exclusive focus on people when I draw. Strange how something like that just happens.
If you want to see how wonky and messy my lines really are, just click through to the original size.
The last one is a sketch of R. I'm not happy with it, as it fails in the portrait department - it was too dark, and he got up and left before I was half done. Nevertheless, here it is:
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This one is in graphite, and the part of it I do like is the hair.
J is still in hospital. R is still home. We're waiting to hear back on whether S got the place at the new school.