Drawing in Progress!

Commuters, (working name) work-in-progress

24x36 mixed-media on paper

Lately I have been on fire in the studio.  Not literally, thank goodness.  (There was a thumb-vs-X-acto knife incident a few weeks ago that was pretty bad, but the bandages are now off, and there have been no actual fires to speak of.) 

The ideas have been coming fast and furious lately, though, and I'm now working on about three different pieces in totally different media and genres. 

This drawing, a work-in-progress, is from a series of photos I took in Seattle.  I'm always fascinated by the rhythms of the work day, and the bicycle commuters on the Bainbridge / Seattle ferry are pretty interesting to watch.  This piece fascinates me because of the value contrast and the mood: five figures to the right watching closely, intently as the ferry comes to dock downtown.  I laid the drawing out one evening and just thought I'd get started blocking in some forms.  Four and a half hours later I looked like a coal miner and was completely energized.

I will post again when this piece is finished.

May you have an energized day free of fires or X-acto knife accidents!
Dawn