Enough of this careful, delicate drawing crap. It makes me nuts trying to hold back the energy. I grabbed a 9B Caran d'Ache and just let it burn yesyesYES!!! I love these pencils - they're the softest, richest, blackest graphite pencils available. It isn't possible to do timid, fastidious . . . I don't know how to say it without using BADWORDS and I'm trying not to do that on this blog, so I'd better just stop and post the drawing.
later thoughts: Sometimes I enjoy working patiently and lingering over detail, but more often, I feel itchy and confined when I try to do that. The way that I completed this drawing is more authentic to how I saw and felt what I was drawing. The deep shadows, the translucency of the old glass ashtray, the reflections in the lamp base, the rough texture of the pipe bowl. Drawing can be very intimate in its directness.
messy drawing of a messy table, 8 1/4 x 11 9/16, watercolor pencils and 9B graphite
detail of the Rad Davis Rhodesian