Again, as with the fire ring, I was interested in playing with jumbled, confused visual information. As a way of refusing to allow myself to become too fixated on what I
know I should be seeing instead of simply what I
am seeing, I looked around for something to draw that I couldn't see the details of well enough to "explain" them in the drawing. This pot contains two just-sprouting amaryllis bulbs, lots of dead, dried-up amaryllis leaves and brown pine needles. Even if I
could see where any particular bit went for any significant portion of the length of it, it would be tiresome to draw it... Of course, I should be painting this... graphite pencil is not the best medium for this type of attempt, but that's what I wanted to try and that's what this sketch is all about... and not in paint.
Oh! Except that I decided I did not want to move down onto the table, began to take it out again but grabbed a rotten eraser so I got icky pinkish-reddish smudges before I realized it, and took
those out with white-out. Click on this to blow it up and you can see that, especially near the pot's lower right...which reminded me how
much I
like to use white-out on purpose. I just like the cake-y hard chalky build up with pencil or pen. Maybe soon I'll allow myself to do a sketch using white-out...
when I first saw this, before I blew it up, I thought it was a nest of baby birds. It looked like little beaks begging for food. I thought, "What has Emily gotten a hold of now?" You draw so sensitively, it makes me want to slow down and not be so heavy-handed.
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