My morning of drawing this week. I was enjoying the newsprint so much that I never moved on to charcoal paper. I like the smoothness and may try out some smooth white paper, like Bristol.
A few of the two-minute gestures:
Three seven-minute:
Two ten-minute–the second looks like watercolor to me, a nice effect I now want to try to recreate deliberately:
Twenty:
And 45, still not enough time this time:
Sermons in Stones 
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April 16, 2014 at 12:34 pm
Carol Bierach
especially love #s 3, 4, and 5…. the LIGHT!! It’s all about the light! Such a lovely, always slightly surprising moment when it actually turns out that the selective drawing of shadows has made the light appear. –AZM
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April 16, 2014 at 8:11 pm
kls67x
Gorgeous!! I’m so happy to see these. A note about Bristol: it may not hold the charcoal as well as the newsprint, which has some tooth & absorbency. I’ve used it for pastel, but I rubbed it in with my hand, so the skin oil helped the pigment stick. Sure, try it, but also consider Stonehenge or some pad of drawing paper (like a Strathmore or Canson) that you like the looks of. 🙂 Thanks! I guess I should buy a few sheets of different papers and try them out. I have been trying to use very toothy (? Toothsome? *g*) charcoal paper, don’t usually like the effect, keep telling myself it’s a matter of getting used to it, and now think, eh, if newsprint works so well for me, I should get whatever has a similar surface but is longer-lasting. This is my way of edging toward making drawings that are meant to be kept. –AZM
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