Comments on: songs for the road

By: swatch

swatch — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:29:00 +0000

Thanks Bill – the time will come – I like your latest drawing.

By: wrjones

wrjones — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:12:04 +0000

Very nice beach painting and I admire a man who draws in church. Nice sketches. You might sit in those angled pews so you can get some front drawings next Sunday.

By: Carol King

Carol King — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:38:39 +0000

Hey SQ, love the drawings. And you have a captive audience! You have a real talent for capturing someone in a quick sketch. I wish I had that ability.

By: swatch

swatch — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:36:04 +0000

Cool – I also think so – next project! I love your leopard BTW

By: lesliepaints

lesliepaints — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:56:13 +0000

From what I’ve seen of your work, I truly believe you can pull it off.

By: swatch

swatch — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:52:19 +0000

Hey that’s a great idea. It will also change the way I look at people as a I draw. Thanks for the idea and the feedback on my drawings. Last week a group of people sat in front of me in the departure hall at an airport. Two of them, an older guy and a young woman sat in front of me having an animated conversation. They were very beautiful. He had white hair and a hooked nose and he wore a leather cowboy hat and she had a straight pointy nose. He used his hands as he spoke and she just focussed on every word. I thought he was Northern Italian but the odd phrase I picked up sounded British. I was busy posting my PE painting and when I picked up a sketch book they all got up to board. I want to explore that scene in the way you suggest. They were magnificent. Thanks for the inspiration.

By: lesliepaints

lesliepaints — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:14:21 +0000

I like seeing your drawings and don’t feel like I need color when seeing this aspect of your art. You have done a great job with watercolor on previous posts with people as the subject. One thing I do like to do is enlarge some good drawings that I get and try to paint from memory or make something new of them. I trace the drawing on tracing paper and then use graphite saral paper to transfer to watercolor paper and I’m off exploring. Thank-you for sharing your drawings.

By: swatch

swatch — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:13:48 +0000

Thanks – I love drawing when I am not under the pressure of scrutiny, or when I have the fortitude to tune it out. And yes – songs for the road – the psalms provide us with great reflective material for when the journey is easy, when the journey is tough and when we look back on tough times. Whoever wrote psalm 88 knew the dark night of the soul.

By: butterflyhands

butterflyhands — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:57:47 +0000

Your sketches are so good. And I believe they were quick sketches. The songs? Meaning the psalms?