Sketchbook page: "In my dreams I can fly, and nothing has changed forever."

[Heidi]

Okay, my true confession is that I _hate_ traditional drawing methods with graphite. But, due to a constellation of events in my professional journey and my personal life as a daughter, I'm making a sketchbook just for my father who has only few months left, and am forcing myself to _draw_ daily (and not hating it as much as I thought I would).

This sketch is Contè pencil on sketchbook paper that I coated with Lascaux Structura (it has fine-grain quartz sand in it, and I chose it to provide a nice "tooth" for Conté and dry pastel.)

Anyway, this is the first sketch for a much bigger painting, most likely in oil, probably about 2.5 meters x 1.3 meters, "In my dreams I can fly, and nothing has changed forever."

(Yes, I draw/paint with a grid. If it's good enough for Chuck Close, it's good enough for me.)

[Forkboy]

1. Now see, I prefer to work in graphite almost exclusively.

Give me a regular #2 pencil and a blank sheet of paper and I'm off! I'm never comfortable with colors in any medium outside of digital, and even there I notice I tend to focus on the burnt colors, reds and oranges and browns. Pen and ink gets me all excited too. :)

I'm sorry to hear about your father. This is a nice thing you're doing. :hug:

[Steerpike]

2. This is wonderful!

I can't wait to see your take in oil!

I did this one 30 x 40 inches in acrylic a while back...