So I've let this drawing sit incomplete for far too long, and decided I'd better finish it once and for all. I got up real early today, made myself a cup of cardamom coffee, and grabbed some India ink and my dip pen. It took me eight hours to finish his face. I started this drawing in December of 2009, worked ferociously on it for a spell, then left it to gather dust. I don't know why, but I wasn't feeling it anymore. When I look at it now, two bottles of ink and many, many hours of controlled breathing later, I am feeling it. It's time.
You can see the very, very slow progress I've made here, and here, and here.
I'll take a higher quality photo soon. When I finish.
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70cm x 100 cm, India ink.
8 comments:
In ink??? woosh!(I'm tired of wow!)
I love his hand on the basket.
Amazing! What a gorgeous record of life lived, and thoughts...thunk.. Although each section you showed is beautiful in its own right, the end result will be a great achievement - when its finished :)
What an incredibly ambitious project. It must be exhausting to draw with such careful detail on an almost life-size drawing. It's amazing! I look forward to seeing the finished work.
Amazing, love the patterning in his sweatet.
This is wonderful! I'm excited to see it when you're done. I just... love it.
Stunning art work!!
You really can do it all!
Barbara
Thank you all so much!
It has been an exhausting project, which is why I took a two year holiday from it, but I am feeling good about it. It has been a rough week, and revisiting this old drawing has been very soothing.
Thank you.
It's stunning!
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