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Art pencil quick sketch of a bird on a branch to an old canvas base.
Quick sketch
There’s something about pencil that makes the heart race. Especially the “quick” sketch, fast strokes of the old soft art pencil on to a heavy cartridge paper or flat canvas, the small finger of my right hand quite blackened on the outside as I give a quick rub here and there to fill in the shadow areas as I go. With a wildlife drawing it is so important to instantly capture what is in front of you, live and as it happens, whereas the pencil sketch of the building or landscape seems slow in comparison – I mean the subject will still be there a minute or an hour later. The Sparrowhawk here on the other hand flicks his head and suddenly gone in the wink of an eye, the branch quivering as the powerful legs thrust upwards and away.
Oh yes, you’ve got to be quick, sometimes the hand has to be quicker than the eye and often my eye never leaves the subject, the hand on autopilot as it were somewhere below. . . .a kind of magic I think!
This drawing is wonderful. I love to draw, but lately have been focusing on writing. Oh, the arts…
Thanks for the comment Therese – I envy your patience as writing projects, novels, auto-biographies and so on, can be so difficult to finish. Especially if you are managing it totally on your own. I have in my small way completed chapters of an autobiographical book, but never finished it or had any real structure of what direction it would take. Just memories of events, episodes really, but not yet linked up. So drawing, painting and computer art presently are more rewarding, certainly in the short term and I can always manage to finish each one, which gives some degree of satisfaction.
Keep it up!