Snapshot

Now here's something that I never do, at least not in a sketchbook: start a drawing with the intention of leaving it to complete later. I couldn't sleep, got up before 5, stumbled up to the studio, checked email and went to my usual internet haunts, then walked up the steps to the loft where I had left a pipe smoker's mess on the coffee table next to my reading/tv chair. Twenty minutes into the drawing and feeling good about the perspective and foreshortening looking decent, I decided to take the fifteen minutes I had left before my alarm went off to signal that the day's business was upon me, and just try to finish sketching the outlines of what I might come back late this afternoon on my return, to complete. I usually don't have this luxury, because I'm most often drawing under rapidly shifting light conditions and feel compelled to hurry. But the object in the upper right is a lamp. So now we'll see what happens.

an in progress snapshot of a drawing that might or might not get completed

Wednesday morning August 10, 2011

A light first pass at establishing some base color and values last night. This is becoming a multi-day project.