Our society values stick-thin people. Hardly anyone real is stick-thin. Most people are rounder, if not completely round. But roundness is no reason not to live one's life. Here is one such person, who played during dinner at a marvelous weekend event. No one there cared one way or the other about how thin or not a person was. People danced, made music, talked, and generally loved being alive.
How true, how true. Me, I am only round from the neck down, above that I am square :) The people in your drawings are so alive, they are alive because they are unique and the have a sense of movement and of life and we feel that you have caught them not just at one moment in time, but just before and just after - like three frtames in one. I think it's the outlines that try so hard to hold the tonal areas - like Monet would paint lines around his water lillies - but never perfectly contain them
ReplyDeleteNice post--great drawing. All 'round good ;)
ReplyDeleteI long for a time when society forgets the size we're 'supposed' to be! Really lovely sketches.
ReplyDeleteJess xx
Love your textures and emotion. Thanks for your comment. Yes, you should totally take IF back up again : )
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