July 11, 2011

     These two crane figurines (and assorted chunks of coral and shells) are in a corner china cabinet. At first I intended to do a simple contour drawing since today is busy with closing up and packing to head north tomorrow. China figurines are a good thing to do in contour as they have clear delineated edges and can't get too complicated or they would be too fragile. 
      I kept being drawn to the knot between the cranes on the back wall of the china cabinet, and to the space behind the cranes, so I put the knot in almost without thinking, and then realized that although I surely Could put in a background and leave the cranes in contour, I would probably rather fill the cranes with a little worked surface. I think that part of what I liked about the cabinet space was the tiny, safe aspect as well as the contrast of cranes as a subject matter with the boxed space.