Given the choice, we prefer warm, wet smudginess to glacial perfection.

I love this (above) line from a UK Telegraph article on fountain pens. The sentence also describes my preference for scribbly-energetic personality-soaked drawings over hyperrealistic ones.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9285069/If-you-want-to-write-like-Hemingway....html

Posting will resume June 1. I have to sit down and do all the boring scanning . . .  Eek, that's tomorrow!

Drawing lots, scanning none. Taking a blog break.

floating on a Spring-hued cushion

None of these colors are reality based, but none of us care.

Graphite and Giaconda pastel pencils in the journal. Paper not coated this time.

colorful cat for May

Hooray for May! Chaucer is feeling all rosy about it. And that odd lean is entirely accurate.

Pastel in the journal, on the DS w/c ground coating.