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Tag: inks

Expressive Encounter

I worked on the back porch early

drinking black coffee

like in a trance

creating expressive black & white works on paper

I thought of as ‘cave art.’

As the rising sun created light and heat

Denisovans climbed the back stairs

to the porch.

Denisovans stood watching me

in a dark and cool room.

I pointed outside the window

they touched their skin.

Almost!

Almost here – almost there.

Painting on Fabriano mixed-media paper, a soft yet substantial texture.

Inks, water-soluble graphite, gouache, watercolour, watercolour pencil.

Mostly materials one might use for smaller works and yet here we are.

Blues. Druidic blue. Pictish Blue.

It almost came to me – how to begin.

It almost came to me – how to complete this work.

A medieval hedgehog decides my painting shall become an illuminated manuscript. It almost does.
Textured drawings based on line drawings above. Almost sentient.
Soon I will enter this doorway. Perhaps to find ancient Druids. Almost ancient almost now.
How quickly my work space looks like chaos or an upheaval!
Many hours rolling – unrolling, hello, goodbye, almost goodbye, almost hello.