Staying loose

[Julie Deane]

Hi Patricia -

Not only good values, but very loose, flowing, "painterly" lines and a well-done drawing overall. Very nice!

[Sharon Knettell]

Pat,

Your drawing is beautiful, so beautiful in fact I would THROW OUT the newsprint and get some reasonably priced archival paper. Little gems like this are a treasure, and it is worth having them on better paper. Use the newsprint for doodling out ideas or training puppies. It yellows and embrittles rapidly. Just look at a pile of old newspapers to see what I mean.

[Jimmie Arroyo]

I'm so jealous of the way you've handled this. It's very fresh and quite possibly my favorite piece of yours. It feels like you were'nt trying to create a woek of art, it just happend naturally. I'm proud of you, keep up the great work.

[Jean Kelly]

Hi Pat, I like your "loose" style a lot! This is a little treasure.

Jean

[Patricia Joyce]

Julie, Sharon, Jimmie, Jean,

I'm so happy to read your responses. I was pretty tickled with the way she happened so quickly and easily. I'd like to think it is no accident but that I am getting something out of the dozens of BAD drawings I do in between the couple of good drawings!!! I was thinking of Ruben's Head of a Boy when I visualized this drawing. The Ruben's poster is in my studio and I have studied it every day for three years - and I have copied it several times.

Sharon, I'll save the newsprint for the puppy we are adopting in two weeks, when I return from Vegas, a one year old german shepherd - Greta, she is beautiful!!! and buy some charcoal paper

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to preserve newsprint?

Jimmie, you jealous of me?????? That's a universal switcharoo!!!! Remember you are MY drawing mentor!!!

[Michele Rushworth]

I'd like to think it is no accident but that I am getting something out of the dozens of BAD drawings I do in between the couple of good drawings!!!

I read somewhere quite recently -- I wish I could remember where -- that the purpose of the vast majority of all the artwork we create is to be somewhat "bad", as preparation for the few top notch things we are fortunate enough to create once in a while along the way.

As far as preserving newsprint, it's full of acid so it will dissolve over time (sorry). However, to keep this drawing in decent shape longer you might want to go to a good art supply store or very good framer and ask about some adhesive to attach it to a mat board so that when it starts to fall apart it won't literally "fall apart".

I can definitely see the feeling of Rubens' "head of a boy" in this. I thought of it too, before you mentioned it.

[Mike McCarty]

Patricia,

Very nice drawing.

You might want to get your best digital image and create a giclee on good paper. Then when the original goes to dust the other will live on.

Michele,

That quote is from the book "Art and Fear," I think.

[Isabel Chiang]

Pat,


it's a wonderful drawing! Full of life.