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I disappear from online posting for weeks at a time. It's as much a habit as, say, not calling you back when I say I will, or going Months without calling a friend. Luckily, once people get to know me they forgive this quirk and understand it's not them, it's me.
And sometimes I like being virtually silent in addition to physically silent.

Today I decided to just do a little meaningless sketch. Meaningless because it's not connected to a future art show. A client or friend didn't ask for it. There wasn't a deadline to it, but there was a purpose. Use water-soluable pencils, properly, and find a water-brush to smoosh it around.
I say properly because 6 or 7 years ago I came across watercolor pencils and instead of drawing with them THEN smooshing around with a brush, I dipped the pencils in water, directly in the water, and drew with the squishy pencil. It worked, but looked a little weird, and was definately not something that churned out successful pieces.



This time I did the sketch on matt-board before smooshing around the water-brush. I might go back and digitally add color, just so I don't mess up the original sketch. Or maybe I will add it to the board itself to see how they react. Experimentation is the key here, folks. Experimentation on free materials, that is. All the matt-board are gifts from friends who work in a framing shop, and pretty much end up tossing all the "drops" that end up getting cut out of the larger matt for the frame. It's damn fine stuff to sketch on, and took the water pretty well, so I'm excited to keep working on it.

Now, I do have a 2 day art show/fair, The Starving Artists Benefit August 21-22, and below is the flyer for time/location. These little sketches, in addition to TONS of new heartworks, heartwork pendants, notecards featuring the Squiggles & Bible Series, prints and quite possibly other original art will all be on display for sale. There's a huge list of other artists on display, in addition to live music, oh, and IT'S A FREE ART EVENT. So, you should go.