Walking
Sketch a day - Day 69/365
A bitty day. A lot of admin. Monday's always seem to need big admin catch ups. Around this, I did thinking about the Otherhood play.
For most of the he day this felt very unsatisfactory. I couldn't seem to get into.my stride at all. At around 3pm, I began to get that sinking feeling that comes when I feel like I have wasted a day. But then out of the blue I had a thought about a challenge I have been having with the play. It was almost audible as my brain went - click click click and I got one of those ‘OH! That's the answer’ moments. Not that this means all the challenges are sorted. Far from it. But I was really happy to get this little breakthrough. And suddenly the day felt like it was a good one.
Small things make such a difference.
I sat and watched pigeons in the emerging cherry blossom. I enjoyed drawing them but I felt frustrated with these drawings too. So often they almost looked like pigeons and then I would make a rogue hand move and suddenly the drawing would look more like a swan or a sparrow or tit. Here we are.
Most of my drawing time today was spent on doing a picture of Abby, Cluny and Boe, from when we did our walk up the big hill above Langthwaite.
I did a warm up drawing below and then a full colour one (above). I am interested in how the warm up drawings always have things about them, at the time that make me go ‘no, wrong’ about them. But later, when I relook at them, there are usually things I can see that I really enjoy. Usually these are things which I sweat over, trying to solve in the ‘proper drawing ‘ and thru doing that, I usually work out that the issue wasn't such a big deal after all.
There are things I like about both versions (and both have plenty that annoy me - I have melted faces aplenty as is my way. Sorry all). But that's ok. Mainly these drawings were a way to mark the fact that Jane and I had an adventure away with friends. Life moves on so quickly at the moment. I like it when drawing helps me slow down and pause.
That's the news.
