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The next day, that sketch reminded me of an egg carton I opened a few days ago, to find one brown and eleven white eggs. I sketched it from memory, painted it with gouache, then prepared the lowest rectangle of the page with golden water color to match the table the timer sits on.
The chicks were an accident. I was drawing a border of eggs cracked open, and the far left one developed a beak and an eye, so I added legs and two chick siblings. (One of my earliest memories is being chased by the neighbors' barnyard chickens, when I tried to pet their baby chicks. The screen door swung shut behind me just after the first pecks landed; nerve endings sealed the memory.)
The chicks were an accident. I was drawing a border of eggs cracked open, and the far left one developed a beak and an eye, so I added legs and two chick siblings. (One of my earliest memories is being chased by the neighbors' barnyard chickens, when I tried to pet their baby chicks. The screen door swung shut behind me just after the first pecks landed; nerve endings sealed the memory.)
Today, I drew another carton from observation, then two of those eggs as they fried. (A row of narrow, protective cardboard cones ran between the two rows.) I used pastel pencils, colored pencil, and white charcoal, maybe even a little graphite.
I dug out a lino stamp I carved last year, inked it brown, and added its pattern to the page.
Sorry if the photo is not clear. I am still figuring out an alternative to the defunct Blogger app.
Artist, book maker, and Sketchbook Skool teacher Roz Stendahl:
Artist, book maker, and Sketchbook Skool teacher Roz Stendahl:
I view my journal as a workbook for my brain. It’s a place for experimentation. In fact I feel so strongly about this that if I don’t get a really messy page every four or five pages I feel that I’m not pushing myself hard enough.
The journal is a place for me to not only write down and draw what I see in my daily life, but to reflect upon it and to experiment and to develop new skills. Drawing skills, writing skills, to just work.The Pentallic Nature Sketch journal is nearly filled. I have gotten my money's worth out of it.
