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Weekly sketch

If you've been following along, you know that I'm newly on a plan to do a little drawing each week with my excellent friend Mr Fisher. Last week, it happens, I was staying down in the Fairfax, Va. area while under way with re-doing a bathroom floor (about which I hope to post something, upcoming) for friends. So our second weekly early morning session was yesterday, Monday.

Again – only naturally – it was awkward getting into the sketching. But I know well enough that here it does little good to sit & think about what you're doing, however awkward you feel. You've just got to start. Among the stuff lying decoratively about at Jeff's place is a deer skull found in the fields nearby, and I've been eyeing it for a while as something to fool with a bit on paper. It was somewhat more a challenge to my rusty drawing skills than I was altogether ready for this morning, truthfully. As I say, though, it doesn't pay to stop & think too much. So I sat & just kind of went at it – using a ballpoint pen, fairly fluid, moderately fine-pointed (not, of course, a terribly subtle or expressive instrument). And I felt the challenge thoroughly – fighting doubt-creep all the way.

The resulting sketch certainly isn't impressive for clarity or economy, but at the same time it's not too painfully strained, tentative, either. Under the circumstances, I'll take that.

posted by paul bowman @ 11:58 PM