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Inspiration….nah, just a light bulb

Like I said, just got a hankering for drawing in pencil . . .

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The perfect pencil . . . . .

I just got a hankering for drawing in pencil . . . so the obvious thing to draw was a pencil . . .

 

 

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what a difference a vowel makes . . .

I read this today.

‘I am looking for someone to create a artistically appalling web sight’

The use of the wrong word for ‘site’ is funny enough— but that typo and the lack of that single vowel is priceless . . . .

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Fashion….in torches

Sometimes the most banal things puzzle me  – how we tie scarves for example- why do we change?and who starts it? See earlier entry – https://rowlandjones.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/february-challenge-change-part-2-scarf-fashion/

This one is about how people hold torches, particularly in police/detective type series….

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Blue hands . .

I NEVER use blue ink . . I don’t know why but I just don’t like it….however it was dark as we  snuggled down in front of the wood burning stove and I sketched whilst we watched something innocuous on TV. I didn’t realise it was a blue pen… anyway it’s the hand of Constantine taken from a statue at the Capitoline Museum in Rome…. becoming a bit obsessed with this hand .. 

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Nonsense from boutique perfumes

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A pair of socks . . . .

So ‘inspired’ my Pentel brush attempt- I tried to draw these freshly washed socks….. ever the romantic

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More comparisons . .

This was the quickest, and I think, it’s my favourite – – Just a Pentel Japanese Brush Pen.

Then another attempt in colour .