Blue Pencil

Sketch a day - Day 178/365

I became very infatuated with a blue pencil crayon today. Sometimes, a particular coloured pencil or ink obsesses me. For no reason I just have to use it all day.

I became convinced I must try and draw with this blue pencil today. And I have also been thinking about how letting go of trying to be ‘colour correct ‘ or naturalistic in my sketching would be fun/freeing.

So I set out to do this sketch of the - field house pylons and trees in Micklethwaite - and I have to say that I am not certain what I think of it. I am not sure I am happy with it. I am feeling quite underwhelmed.

But on the other hand at least I carved our some time to draw today. The last few days I have just been throwing marks at a page and hoping what occurs can count as a sketch.

As to the day itself. Well. It's been intense and interesting and a headache and also delightful. All alongside the absolute horror of the daily news coming from Gaza. I don't know how the world stands it. I don't know how the people trapped in Gaza stand it. It's endless heartbreak. And it's endlessly inhumane and utterly wrong.

Free Palestine

That's the news.