Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers
and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
— Gabriel García Márquez
The hour is growing late on this Easter Monday afternoon and I have to report to school tomorrow. My classes for the week have all been prepared and I am enjoying the music of Leon Bridges “River”, Agnes Obel’s “September Song” and the Villagers “Nothing Arrived”.
I have been intermittently reading Stephen King’s “On Writing” and it reminds me that to be an artist, any type of artist, we have to make a clearing through the chaos of our senses & events. When I first saw Kim’s photograph that she sent me, I sat down to study it… I had to make sense of it all before even starting to draw. Figure things out in a way that works for me.
I decided that I would start at the top and work through the first big flower as an outline, then move below to the second flower and then finish off with the leaves. Then fill everything in. What I actually did was start at the top with the first flower, filled it with the flowing lines, drew the stem and leaves, left them blank, and then finished with the second flower to finish everything off. So much for my plan!
Moleskine Sketchbook: 5″ x 8″
Pen: Sailor Desk EF
Ink: De Atramentis Document Black
Photograph: Taken by Kim Thuy Ly Thanh
Painting to see : Peindre pour voir 
This is beautiful and striking, I love lines. 🙋
You may wish to have a look at pmuink.com to see how she does her lines, quite different.
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I will —
Thank you!
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Jane you have the ability with just line on paper to express yourself. I am envious of this talent. Hold on to this and keep posting
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Ahhhh thank you Linda — I love lines. Soon my school will be finished and will be able to get back into a somewhat more normal life — with painting and drawing in it!!!
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I love your work.And I can’t help imagining this as a print from a wood engraving.
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You have that reference too Holly? It is always in the neck of my brain when I draw in ink –) Thank you!
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Yes, and the blocks were pretty special being made of fine end grain so they could really hold a line. I’ve tried it (long ago!) on regular quarter sawn and it doesn’t last.
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I would have liked to see that Holly -)
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