Mother and Child

Mother and Child , originally uploaded by askthemoon.

I sometimes feel like this woman, so I drew her. Then I drew the child, who seems to actually be comforting the woman, rather than the other way around. Who is the child? I don't know. Who do you think she is?

Drawn from the Film, Pi ( π )

Traced directly from theTV screen.  From a paused DVD of  "Pi". Sean Gullette plays an obsessed mathematician. Scribble-traced the basic values, then doused the drawing with tea, crumpled it up, smoothed it out, dried it. It didn't seem right to draw upon such an ususual film without being unusual about the art process too.

Humble Offering

I can't go to bed until I draw something," I tell myself. Just a mixture of colored pencil and pastel. The light coming from a lamp on my right, so the shadow falls the other way. Later, I saw a painting of Cezanne apples that so shamed me, I got serious and added a green background, (after also outlining the apple in dark green.) That was a choice I'd never have made but for the Cezanne to guide me. I need to start copying the masters, or I'll be stuck in my bad habits and never learn a thing.