September 12, 2011

    I was extremely tired by this evening, so I did a pen contour of an oblong resin (intended to look like ivory I think) pot belonging to my son.

September 11, 2011

    I've been at my parents' home since yesterday and this is a hand turned and hand embellished cut-away pot they have on their mantel. I spent almost as much time getting an image of the drawing as I did doing it... and it was alot more trouble! People who never use a computer to handle images may only have the very first version of paint, and it didn't seem to think there would ever be a need to crop... just for example! 
    I've managed to put a wierd twist on the top of this pot, which I assure you is not really there, but to heck with it! On to the next one!

August 12, 2011

     The design on this raku pot was made by tossing handfuls of horse hair onto the clay as it fired. The lid was unglazed but burnished and the bunny on top was glazed with a crackle glaze. I got this at a crafter's fair. My drawing needs to plump out a bit on the right I can see... still practising free-hand rounds... 

May 7, 2011

    This is a sketch of the pond in my back yard from a repositioned bench. I drew this much, and decided to take a break for the day. I could just leave it like this or I could decide to revisit it tomorrow or the next day... at any rate, I have a nice place to sit to draw!

March 3, 2011

    This is an enamel pot for heating water. I'm rather fond of it despite it's obvious challenges (having had the handle replaced sometime in the past with shelf brackets) because it's something of a magic pot; it holds about twice as much water as anything it's size should...

Jan. 12, 2011

    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...