Patience

As you can see from my posting rate, I've been very quiet. This COVID-19 has me in an artistic funk. I could easily be sketching around the house, but I'm not in the mood. Other things on my mind, and the post elude to. But I'll always be sketching. I can't walk away from this form of expression. I suspect I may have lost all my viewership, but I'll still post. Hope somebody is out there.

I found this wicker ball in an antique store and couldn't stop looking at it. It's the type of object that would take forever to sketch in detail but still called out to be sketched, so I bought it. Some time has passed since I bought it, as I was looking for the right time to sketch it. Today is the day. It's Father's Day and our kids live out of state. So, it's quiet, just Wilma and I, and a COVID-19 isolation weekend. It will be a treat to myself to do it today! I had planned on doing a full pencil rendering in 100% detail and then inking it in, but it just grates me wrong to spend that much time on one drawing. The drawing would look great but I don't have the mindset to spend that length of time on one drawing. I'm a sketcher of daily life, not a formal artist. So, I did the old some detail-some implied method, and I like it.

If you read far enough you'll see I included some gloomy news, too. I did not start this sketch to be about cancer, but as I was writing the text, it just came to me. I saw how it all tied together, so to speak. It's been heavy on my mind since the diagnosis last week. And, good or bad, this journal is about daily life, so it had to be said.