That great mechanical pencil got lost last Thursday, when I'd got about halfway through this drawing– lost it on the walk home I guess. So I had to go buy a new one. A changing of the guard; turning point, perhaps.
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bywater in rain
this corner of Bywater
(Or Bacchanal on the rainy day) Here is a pencil drawing I did this evening of the wine store/bar in Bywater that Ben and I fell in love with. The place was at the ass-end of Chartres Street, in an Industrial/residential milieu that definitely grabbed our Brooklyn-based minds (Think Gowanus area). This patchwork-quilt of a… Continue reading this corner of Bywater
The slow process of pencil-shading, mechanically
Mechanical pencil– mechanized shading therewith. It's a 0.5 lead, and much as I love working with it, I realize I'm attacking fine art with an architect or engineer's tool. What's one to do? One begins with, then becomes comfortable with, and finally attached to one's media. (It's a pencil I found in the Pratt library… Continue reading The slow process of pencil-shading, mechanically
e daggar art: THE MUSEUM 