Ta dah! Well, here’s an early swipe at a crepe myrtles painting measuring 40 x 30 inches. I love everything about crepe myrtles — love the flowers, love painting them, love the season when they bloom while cicadas are singing. And I am loving using acrylic paint in transparent veils of color — somewhat watercolorish looking in character, though very different from watercolor in the painting of it.
It will sound strange. But that thrill is why one draws. I was looking at the crystal creamer and finding myself thoroughly confused. What with its complicated transparencies and my bi-focal befuddlements, I couldn’t tell what was where. My drawing makes it seem simple when the real object and the real sensation is utterly mind boggling. The crystal creamer is a labyrinth of lozenges and fond patterns.
Perhaps in other drawings I can get at the confusions and portray them. For now I want to hold fast to the thrill of making this drawing — this drawing that I made just five minutes ago –because the ball point pen’s delicacy makes these lines, as you draw them, feel like glass. How the medium and the object seem well suited!
I cannot say enough good things about this pen, this common dime store pen.
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