Drawings Through the Last Month

 Drawings through the last month.

 

Something for the febrile hand

Marker and oil pastel on shellacked paper

Wathcing TV

Watching TV and drawing to fight the ennui.

Trying Out Ideas

Drawings

Something done in conjunction with watching television. [Now a bit of too much information]. Last year I had retinal detachments in both eyes and in the process of the reattachment had cataract surgery as well to save future operations. Therefore now when I draw it is either no glasses and have approximate close vision or wear glasses and draw things up to about 30cm away. I could of course got multi-focal lenses, but then I'm sure I would have ended up wearing glasses all the time and I'm so enjoying not having to wear glasses after about 50 years of wearing them. I may have to give in to multi-vocals in the end, but for the moment I'll persevere. 

Drawing

Drawing

Night Scribbling

In The Evening

in the evening as the sun set and a front brought rain to us.

Reflexive drawing

I had limited tools, but needed to make something.

In the Darkness

I sat down and this came out.

Had To Do Something

Things

 A thing

Another thing

A Melbourne Interlude

I'm not long back from a 'clergy spouse conference' in Melbourne. I went and stayed with our son so that I could have some time to look at art, talk, search out a few art materials, and think, ponder and meditate. I did all these things. This is what I drew on the train back to his place one day while I was avoiding reading the novel I'm reading because of impending violence. As usual once beginning the drawing I was drawn in. Creation wants to out. I found it surprisingly dislocating being away from home by myself at this time. I felt an affinity with Greta Garbo's later response to the world. Now I'm back in the familiar and feeling more 'normal' , but wondering.

Conversation

I always think of these shapes as being in conversation.

Zad

My guess is that it's finished.

Za Series

 At the end, I think?

More to go.

Some Drawings from sitting near the heater

I try to draw regularly because I think that it's good for seeing and looking and once started, drawing seems to take me to a part of my consciousness that is playful. So that mostly drawing in with a sense of joy and achievement. 

Trying to Create Delight

I'm sort of twiddling my thumbs until I get around to stretching some paper and gessoing it. There is something that I need in a larger scale; a presence.

A drawing of Atalanta's teapot

I watched Love Actually and drew a bit as well.

mucking around