studies

i saw some strange faces today.

and after studying them, made their children. i love strange faces. i love cleft chins. i love downturned lips and chubby sulking cheeks.

So now i have Ellie who is not afraid of spiders, and June who is perpetually melancholy about nothing and thus annoys her friends but is still much loved by those who matter.

Too lazy to scan so these are snapshots, and to punish me for being lazy the colors come out a little harsh. I love drawing on brown paper, and on wood. I've stayed away from pencils and color pencils since secondary school, but with brown paper, pencils are friends again.

Study days are lovely. They are just for me, not for clients or any audience. They are for experiments, old magazines, photographs, and interesting people. Most of all, they feed the mind. Empty minds can barely imagine anything.