My Barn Burned Down

lost puppy samantha

I cannot believe how fast the week has gone. Three paintings I thought were near completion and I think I’m overworking them. Keep messing them up. So I thought I’d take a break and get out my sketching tools as I keep reading on the blogs etc. how the foundations of drawing are so crucial. I also see that I need more experience in seeing how the value changes turn the form; they are so subtle it really takes focus and concentration. I remember when I took Drawing I and II at Montgomery  College in my thirties how surprising it was to learn that I had to learn to see. So – serendipity again – I was standing at the bus stop after work and a torn photocopy of a lost puppy flier was hanging on by a fiber to the pole. It’s movement in the wind made me take notice and I thought, how adorable. That would be fun to draw. I hope they found her. Her name is Samantha, like my own dog who died this year. It was interesting returning to pencils and how challenging to get the gradual changes in value. It’s a very rough drawing, but showed me I need to do more to get my chops up. She’s cute though.

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