Last summer was the beginning of getting reacquainted with charcoal. This is a medium you get to know well or leave it alone. Well, I’m no quitter.
Last summer, I kept a sketchbook and began with a series of musicians from the 70s. While I’m yet to complete the book, I’ve made ample progress and continue to experiment in a number of ways. The sketchbook became such a consuming task that I didn’t get much done outside of it. It was a bit of an obsession.
I’m further along than the video here, but to give an idea of what I’m talking about…
Portraits on Tiffany 
Really nice drawings. I love charcoal too.
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Thank you 😊. It took me years to circle back to using charcoal. It’s always been a scary, interesting medium for me.
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I love the messiness and drama of it. 🙂
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Yes, it definitely has those attributes. Crazy how I stopped using pastel because of the messiness. I love charcoal now that I understand it better.
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It’s funny because I’m quite a perfectionist and like tidiness in other areas of my life. But when I took my first art class (in early 2020), I loved charcoal almost immediately–I think because it went against those perfectionist tendencies and made me feel a bit wild and free, like a child, again.
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Great work.
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Thank you. 😊
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