Peaceful Saturday

Saturday mornings are one of my favorite times to come up to studio and work. There are usually only a few people working quietly which makes accomplishing something quite simple and very motivating. Today studio is empty except for a few second years so I settle into my drawing--a headache of curves and spirals with the thickness of extremely thin wire. This will be my first experience working with french curves. The ease and fluidity of each arch in the plastic templates stares me down, taunting me with their perfection and daring me to get this drawing right. I begin following the sketchy spirals that originally caused the drawing to appear disarrayed like a messy bird's nest. It is slow and tedious work but, for the sake of learning new skills and practicing old ones, I push on.

...carolyn