The past few weeks we have been nestling in our house: cuddling, reading stories, preparing for the start of school; and I’ve been working every other minute towards a big deadline.
Now, my book is submitted, and my daughter has started year one…
I took a week to do nothing; to let the dust motes settle in the beams of sunshine while I readjusted to life without the urgency of deadlines.
And now that I’m ready to return to daily drawings, I am exploring the faces around me. There is so much beauty in every face.
Leonardo da Vinci used to fill sketchbook margins with random faces before he started his “real” work of fine art and scientific research. I often wonder if those faces gave him perspective, if he could see his projects and problems from their perspective, and if it helped him approach ideas from different points of view. Or perhaps it was simply “doing scales” as I call it. I used to play piano regularly, and playing scales kept my fingers limber and ready. Drawing faces is a bit like that as well; each face trains my hand to draw individuality rather than someone more generic.
So here they are… the most recent faces.
Next week I’ll get back to more personal diary drawings.
And if you fancy getting your face drawn, why not get in touch? I need more faces!
