This popped up in my Apple featured Photos. I recall it from years ago. From a time I was on fire.
Across Brooklyn
This is the street where they still make coffins:
the little workshops, side by side.
I pass them with my daughter on our walk to the river.
Are we seeking the bridge itself,
or the famous, much-reported view?
A few planks and nails lie around
and each of the entrances seems to darken.
Far back, out of sight, someone is whistling.
Yes, I suppose we do walk a little faster.
There is a faint noise of hammering, too.
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Got me thinking about New York. Here are some of my sketches from 2007
Image
I just came across one of my digital images and I liked it, and here it is.
The original is a tiff from 21 August 2021
Land
Great to be on holiday and stumbe lazily on my blog.
We are staying on our land at Fernside. Did a sketch.
Pods — 2014
Did a few of these after I came back from a month in the bush. Posted here now as I tried to get it into the media library from Apple photos on thr iPad …. But no, it publishes it as well.
Ink & Pastel
From ThousandSketches 2006
Ink
I have been making ink sketches with the grandchildren 5 and 7 years old. I offer them watercolours, soft pastels and ink. Ink! Did you bring the ink! Nice to work with but it takes some heavy supervision.
Efforts below. Some are mine. All the photos are mine and they add to the composition.
Some favourite digital sketches — A Gallery
Browsing through old images I’ve made I’ve picked these out as favourite, more or less figurative, ones. I may add more.
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Illegible Calligraphy
A gallery of images — virtually illegible!
Line & Wash Gallery
I’m learning to use Jetpack for this blog. I’m also working on my art journal This is one of the Gallery sets that was in is my art blog but is not there now! Jetpack is doing a nice job!
I used to a lot of these, but no more? I still like them. I’d even forgotten there was a name for the genre.
