James, you can guarantee that if you leave an empty cardboard box around on Christmas Day, one of two things will happen: 1. The cat(s) will get into it. 2. The kid(s) will get into it when they're tired of playing with their presents.
David, you're right -- the boxes and the packaging are often the best thing.
Steve, it's Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay on the OverSoul: "By the same fire, vital, consecrating, celestial, which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other, and what spirit each is of."
Jim, do you still make many sketches using only a graphite pencil?
Since you are fully capable of working quickly and efficiently with colored pencils, casein, gouache, watercolor, and/or oil, do you see any particular value in limiting yourself to just graphite and paper?
Jim, yes, I still sketch in graphite, but I tend to zero in on a certain medium for a few months and experiment with it, then cycle back to the old favorites. At the moment I'm still experimenting with gouache a lot, so I try to bring at least a minimal gouache painting setup everywhere. Pure graphite has so many of its own wonderful virtues, and in the future I'm sure I'll really get into that again.
Sweet sketch. May I ask a question related to yesterday's post...what was the Emerson quotation about the sky?
ReplyDeleteJames, you can guarantee that if you leave an empty cardboard box around on Christmas Day, one of two things will happen:
ReplyDelete1. The cat(s) will get into it.
2. The kid(s) will get into it when they're tired of playing with their presents.
Lovely sketch.
Very nice indeed. I'm estimating this took you 15 minutes or less? How I wish I could sketch like that.
ReplyDeleteDavid, you're right -- the boxes and the packaging are often the best thing.
ReplyDeleteSteve, it's Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay on the OverSoul: "By the same fire, vital, consecrating, celestial, which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other, and what spirit each is of."
Jim, do you still make many sketches using only a graphite pencil?
ReplyDeleteSince you are fully capable of working quickly and efficiently with colored pencils, casein, gouache, watercolor, and/or oil, do you see any particular value in limiting yourself to just graphite and paper?
Jim, yes, I still sketch in graphite, but I tend to zero in on a certain medium for a few months and experiment with it, then cycle back to the old favorites. At the moment I'm still experimenting with gouache a lot, so I try to bring at least a minimal gouache painting setup everywhere. Pure graphite has so many of its own wonderful virtues, and in the future I'm sure I'll really get into that again.
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