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A very wintry thanksgiving - nov 22, 2018

12/1/2018

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For obvious reasons I don’t do a lot of drawing outdoors in winter or at night, and I had every reason to stay indoors on Thanksgiving evening.  It was about 7 degrees out and there was a half foot of snow covering everything.  But there was a full moon too, and I was entranced by the tree shadows and the patches of moonlight that undulated across the snow beneath the woods behind my house. 
 
By now I have a good idea of what scenes would make a good scratchboard drawing.  Every now and then I’ll catch a glimpse of an image that I know is just right, and this was one of those times.  It would have been nice if I could have quickly run out there and taken a photograph, but I don’t have the equipment or the skill for that.  The scene was too good to pass up, so, I put on as many layers as I could, got out my warmest hat and gloves and took my folding chair out to the edge of the woods, and drew as quickly as I could.

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    Some of the best work I've done isn't hanging on a wall; it's sitting in a box in my closet that's full of my old sketch books.  I fill up one or two books each year.  Some of the sketches end up as a basis of a more formal work, but most don't.  They’re more important to me as a pictorial diary and also as on-going training; learning to really see and to understand shape, light and color.

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