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| 5/23/25 Maple Leaf neighborhood |
Fran Gallo begins every yoga class with a dedication
inspired by a poem or quotation. This day’s class, dedicated to meditative
observation, began with a passage from Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker
Creek. As Fran read, I thought about how every sketch I make on location is
a type of meditative observation that empties my mind of everything except what
I am trying to capture from the moment.
On this day, I observed: Even when you can’t see most of a tree, you can learn about its size by looking at its shadow.
Pencil note: This Holbein colored pencil is the first of three I am auditioning to find the best graphite wannabe. I’ll be talking more about all of them, of course, after making several sketches with each, but right out of the gate, I must say that Holbein is a strong candidate!
Nicely shadowed! Sketching keeps your mind on what you are doing and what is around you...very meditative.
ReplyDeleteYes... we sketchers have always known that!
DeleteHolbein is one of the brands I have no samples of, along with luminance. I keep telling myself i don’t want to know if I like them better than what I’ve got. I don’t want to feel compelled to pay the exorbitant prices for the size set that I would want. Now I’m curious why this pencil would be more graphite like than Prisma or Faber-Castell options. Of course, you will tell me eventually. Always with the cliff hanger! ;-) Anne HwH
ReplyDeleteThe Holbein test was verrrrry interesting! But I've now moved on to Derwent Lightfast! The plot thickens! ;-)
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