Pencil Sketch of Bridge

Immediacy seems to work sometimes. Although not perfect, it retains something fresh that I often lose when I try to push things forward. I get alot of anxiety when I try to push things forward to some supposed completed ideal. I begin to fear making mistakes. I fear losing it. And in the fearing, I lose it. What ever "it" is. Something Ive been trying to implement lately ( in between blackouts) is just the discipline of continuing. Keep drawing. Keep exploring ( limitied though it is) and pushing my idea range. Just keep trying.

Power poles

Another brief coloured sketch of some power poles. Horizons are often burnt in life.

Moods

Brief sketch of a truck I saw on the freeway. I was more interested in the symetry of the lines created by the light poles. I am obsessed with streets and light poles. I have been taking a few notes here and there. Mostly ideas for cartoons. But I have had little motivation to do any serious drawing. It ebbs and flows with my inner dialogues and subsequent moods. Every where I go, I only notice colours, patterns, shapes, contrasts, compositions. They never translate into anything good. I notice the bottoming out of my mood in a half assed effort like this, followed by a flurry of intense activity.

Powerpole

Powerpole

Coloured Pencil on paper

More Pencil

Panel Beater On the Corner

Pencil on Paper

Pencil Sketch

Pencil Sketch

This is the actual scene I tried to capture from memory a couple of posts back in "50." Done in pencil, it has a softer feel. I have been looking at some modernist Canadian Landscape painting on a weekly basis in a waiting room recently. Stuff I have never seen before that interpreted the rugged Canadian landscape in a unique way. This, plus a couple of articles on the Chris O'Doherty exhibition have been feeding the need to try streetscapes again. This may become a painting.

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