Rather than make a drawing, I spent my whole studio time this evening finishing this star. They each take a few hours to make, and I find the work soothing as I get to live inside the colors and shapes of stitches as I listen to a mystery or an episode of Critical Role or something.
ALT: photo of a five-petaled flower shape, turquoise blue with splashes of pastel pinks and yellows and rainbows. The colored yarn is woven and stitched over a pipe-cleaner framework. It’s about 6″ diameter.
ALT: crayon colors added to the graphite drawing; graphite and watercolor. three faces so close that they are touching each other, the middle one is smiling widely and the other two are enjoying more quietly, and musical staves weave among them. I was fortunate to attend a concert of a trio led by John Zorn this evening. This drawing is not at all portraiture, but a representation of how wonderful it was to watch the communication and precision among the musicians as they produced sometimes gloriously chaotic-sounding noise.
And some of my newer darnstars, since today’s post is another retread.
ALT: graphite and watercolor. three faces so close that they are touching each other, the middle one is smiling widely and the other two are enjoying more quietly, and musical staves weave among them. I was fortunate to attend a concert of a trio led by John Zorn this evening. This drawing is not at all portraiture, but a representation of how wonderful it was to watch the communication and precision among the musicians as they produced sometimes gloriously chaotic-sounding noise.
ALT: crayon and ink, abstract-ish. There’s something that looks like a fan of flames (it started out as a flower) rising up the middle, and three small blue creatures sit at its base. one seems to sleep, one is maybe sitting, one stands, sort of, though it doesn’t really have legs. This drawing was a bit of a journey, and I wouldn’t have minded burning it in the end.
ALT: crayon and ink, abstract with imaginary calligraphic writing that someone told me there was a word for, but I have forgotten it and don’t have time to look it up right now. swoopy primary colors in crayon, overlaid with black ink washes and squiggles.
ALT: crayon and ink, a purple cat is stretching, or reaching through, or playing with angular tangles of red, gold and black lines like tangled thread.
ALT: ink, watercolor, crayon doodle of three pointy and irritated-looking creatures. They look a little like fish-birds. Sort of brown and gold, on a blue-purple background. There’s also a little imaginary calligraphy floating around them.
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