28 June 26
Graphite Exploration
I did this drawing yesterday of ivy stems, decades or even centuries old, around an oak tree in Ireland. It’s a painstaking medium starting with lighter strokes and building up layers, requiring a lot of patience (which I don’t have a lot of) and time (which, given that the workshop was only two hours long, there wasn’t much of either). I regret going in quite so hard at the outset on the cracks in the bark, because they alter the balance of the whole drawing. I’d say this one is about half done.
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