SKETCHES 9-19-20 (Patreon)

Dear Patrons,

I sketched in the park. I didn't bring a watch; I estimate for about two hours, purposely until the ink in my two Sharpies and ball point pen ran out. I used to dislike sketching outdoors, particularly trees and buildings, but in my "old age" am thinking of them sculpturally rather than as a series of lines. I deal largely with the contrasting darks.  

My pens dance over the page, disregarding what is placed where in the actual. Around and round I go until the entire page is absolutely full drawing past the borders I had intended, not worrying about spoiling what I had drawn next to it. Sometimes it ends up not even being legible (I'm sharing the good ones). Sometimes passers by seemed disturbed as I drew them; I used to worry about that. Now I'm like, good, I'm bugging people.

The sketchbook isn't for running over the faces and figures you've drawn again and again; it's for trying what you don't know yet. DRAW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW YET.

Best Wishes & Love,

Milt