Shy, tentative marks on the page, trying to remember how to draw – oh I used to do this all the time, it was so easy decades ago…
It is a re-entry into pure eye to hand communication, all visceral observation, any analytical thinking subverted, diverted, short-circuited.
Last week in the city, at lunch a friend said she had started going to life drawing classes again after an absence of decades. It comes back, she assured me, Like a bicycle…
Encouraged by my sweet BFF Susan, asked so nicely by Uzoma, and determined to reconnect, experimenting with pencil, pastel, paint, messing around, trying anything to feel less afraid of the page, I begin drawing on photographs –
It seems like a desecration at the same time as it is wholly satisfying – an ownership, a branding – a new area to explore while feeling somehowlike a tying up of loose ends…
follow your nose 
Oh my word! These are absolutely beautiful. I love the sketch of the plate, especially. Talent never dies, really.
Much love.
It is a tiny shell! So small it wouldn’t fit on the tip of your finger… I am drawn to that one too – more exploring in that direction to come.
Your kind words have been so very helpful in getting past the fear of the blank page… Much love back, K
My bad! It looked like some kind of plate or bowl. Anyways, thanks for sharing it. You’re indeed talent.
No bad! I love the idea of it as a bowl. It is the small made large which confuses – but happily 🙂
I really like them all!
Thanks so much!
Love the bunny!
Thanks honey!
That rabbit is badass! I’d follow it 🙂
Oh, what a marvelous association! Love it. Thanks John 🙂
That rabbit is ALIVE. I really like the depth of the black that you use to create its eye in the first one, then the difference in the second one. The looser strokes in the second one imply that constant motion that bunnies have, the twitching and sniffing and wiggling. FANTASTIC!
Oh thank you so very much for your kind words!!! Totally making my day… I saw several more bunnies this morning and an thinking to try a few more drawings now – bunnies in all their moods…
I can’t wait to see them!
LOVE the rabbits! Would you consider selling them as cards or something?
WOW. If there was a market I would totally do that! Etsy…???
Etsy would be easy, or you could open a Cafe Press shop, or just offer them here 🙂 Offer a simple print suitable for framing, something you don’t have to work hard to produce and watch the orders roll in…
Okay!!! Idea sold 🙂
Thank you for all these great suggestions 🙂
I’m just full of…Ideas! Yeah, that’s it! Ideas 🙂
Well, if this is what you’re like when you’re rusty, I can’t wait to see what you can create when you’ve had a bit more practice! These are all totally delightful!
Awwww, you charmer!
Yes! Etsy? Why not?
Why the heck not?
(Loved your rootless poem, but not enough grey matter right now to comment…)
Thank you. I’ll wait;-)
Really enjoyed your artwork….very nice indeed.
Thanks Slp!!
brilliant! love these Kat! Love them. The shell is fantastic, but then, they all are…
Oh Dawn, thanks so so much. I agree, there is something about that shell…enigmatic or something
I would add, that there’s something about your work, as well… enigmatic or something.
🙂
Thanks, Kat. That means a lot. 😉
I get this feeling if we ever met in real life we’d have a hoot…
Let’s not rule that out. hoot hoot!