Nothing Happens At Ten

We had another rainy day today, so I disappeared into my drawings. They are almost done.

I need to make a few refinements to them, and then I can take them to the framer.

It was a gloriously rainy weekend, so I disappeared into the basement and made some more progress on my drawings.

Not done yet, but we are getting there.

I made some progress on my latest P&I (that’s artist talk for Pen & Ink) drawings.

There is still a bunch of cross hatching to do, but these are on their way. If I can find time to work on them over the next couple of weeks, they might be done in time to have them framed for the show in November.

Here is the big one, all framed in a nice, professional frame.

That’s a crappy, keystoned photo, but hey, it’s hanging in a skinny little hallway. You can see a better photo of this drawing on my Art Page.

http://www.thekimerers.net/brian/art/

Simply click on the big box in the middle of the page to see the drawing. If you keep clicking over and over again on the image in the box, you will be delighted (or bored) over and over again by numerous paintings done by me.

The drawing is done. Here is a photo.

There is a larger copy of this image on my web page if you want to go there and zoom in on it. The photo does not do the drawing justice because the camera does not have the resolution necessary to pick up all the details.

http://www.thekimerers.net/brian/art/working-rockland.shtml

On to my next adventure. I think I might brew some more beer soon.

I spent a few hours on my drawing again today. I made a bit of progress… and without any especially bad spills.

It looks like I am about 2/3 done with this now. Of course, I didn’t do all of this today. That picture is the result of three weeks of work. This is slow stuff.

Being close to getting done means that the pressure is on to avoid turning over the ink bottle on top of it.

Don’t laugh. I’ve done it…. during a demo… with people watching…. and then with people helping me clean up the mess. It was embarrassing.

OK. To add a little color to this post, here is a photo of our Black Eyed Susans trying to take over the world again.

There. That’s better.

Here is my latest art project.

That is a pen and ink drawing that is 18 inches by 24 inches in size. That’s pretty huge for a pen and ink drawing. If you look really closely (squint) you can see that most of the paper is covered with the pencil drawing. Very ambitious. I have just started to put down the ink.

The dark circle at the top of the sheet is a dime. The pen I am using is next to the dime. See the nib on that pen? Of course not. It’s too small. Here’s a closeup.

Pretty tiny hunh? I will cover that entire 18 by 24 inch sheet using that nib.

Well, maybe it won’t be that very same nib. Early on, I dropped another one on the floor. It now looks like this:

Here’s another view.

Yikes. Pretty delicate. I didn’t even step on it.

That picture also describes my nerves after I have done a few hours on the drawing.

Stay tuned (but don’t hold your breath – this will take a while)