Balancing Pebbles

Treated myself to an afternoon of stone balancing.

Had a nice chat with some folk from Vermont, who told me about Inookshooks. I see why he thought they were a bit similar, but I wasn't aiming to make an anthropomorphic figure, or even leave a lasting mark on the landscape. I'm aiming to make it look really delicate, so it's fairly unstable, not a quality you'd be looking for in a waymarker.

I do quite like the idea though, of leaving a balance standing so other people can take away whatever message they like from it-but the urge to add just one more rock is usually too powerful. Every one I did yesterday eventually had a catastrophic collapse. They'd have been an OK size to leave too. Not too near a path and not really heavy or tall enough to hurt anybody.

contour drawing

Contour drawing is a warm-up exercise that Betty Edwards recommends in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

The rules are that once you have placed the pencil on the paper, you're not allowed to look at the paper again, only at the subject.

Some of them turn out quite striking. I usually draw my non drawing hand ( I sometimes do contour drawings with my non dominant hand) or my feet.

Equinox

perfect balance between night and day, east and west, gravity and levity.

dandelion after rain

the bloke at the next table

Sketch on back cover of cheque book

self portrait

reflections

the watery mirror reflects a deeper, darker more detailed world than the surface view, even when the scrying surface is just a muddy puddle

Michael Nobbs

I love Michael Nobbs drawings.
They are of such ordinary things.
He likes tea even more than I do. (Or at least as much)


michael nobbshttp://blog.michaelnobbs.com/page/3/

hex photo

drawing

hex is the dogs name, i don't know why i signed his name not mine, but i did the drawing. Click on it for a bigger version





black ballpoint pen

Spirals

Different days, different places, different materials, same basic shape