Drawing in Motion
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Drawing in motion, Mocko Jumbie style! Drawn at one of the St. Thomas Carnival Parades.
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LikeSign Language
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
These two people were so much fun to draw. She was talking, with her mouth and her hands. He was trying to say someething but couldn’t get a word in edgewise. She was talking with one hand going in the air and the other hand running back and forth across the table top. It was like sign language with simultaneous interpretation! This was the moment when he finally dared to open his mouth. It didn’t stay open too long! You can see the frustration in his arched eyebrow.
Tres cool!
Cherry Blossom Close Up
Monday, May 10th, 2010
As I wrote in last week’s blog entry, before Ronnie and I went into the Conservatory at the NYBG to see the Emily Dickinson house, we sat in front of one of the beautiful cherry trees and made some drawings of it. I love cherry trees because you can always go “inside” them and enjoy a pink reflected world from the fallen blossoms and the arching branches and protective leaves hanging down to the ground. It’s a lovely pink world inside there. You see the world through rose colored glasses! Pure fun! I would love to go to to the National Cherry Blossom Festival sometime.
That would be a lovely pink heaven!
Poppies and Thoughts
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
My friend Ronnie and I made a spontaneous visit to the NYBG on Friday. We haven’t gone out drawing together in a long time and so this was a wonderful day in many ways. The day was lovely, weather wise, and so even though there was an Emily Dickinson Garden theme at the Conservatory we stayed outside and sat on the edges of a cherry blossom tree. Fortunately there were still some tissue pink blossoms on the tree and when the wind gently blew it snowed a few remaining pale pink petals our way. We made some drawings and talked. The sun was bright and hot so we went inside for some coffee. Then we made our way over to the Conservatory and went in to see how Emily Dickinson lived with her flowers. Ronnie sat down immediately in front of the poppies and began drawing and painting. I was told by the guard to get rid of my remaining iced coffee. I did so. I came back and walked around the scene for awhile and shot some pictures of the most incredible array of flora I had seen in quite some time. These were all the flowers and plants that Emily Dickinson was surrounded by while living in her house and from which she wrote her poetry. Apparently she never left her home. I wondered what my life would have been like had I never left my house. Different, to say the least. So I went back to Ronnie, who was sitting in front of the poppies, the best seat in the house, of course, and sat down and started drawing. In what seemed like an instant, the guard came over and asked us to move. We gathered up our paper and materials and moved along. So, I only have this one poppy drawing from that afternoon. But I thought, had I never left my house I never would have made this drawing or the cherry blossom drawing, sitting next to my friend and doing what we both love to do, draw!
In the name of the Bee -
And of the Butterfly -
And of the Breeze – Amen!
Emily Dickinson
I love this…Nature is Emily’s religion – Amen!
A drawing of one of the skater’s feet!
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