My Studio & Work in Process!

Today I found out I’m still allowed to use charcoal. I haven’t felt closure with the current series I’ve been working on; each drawing yields subtle changes I want to continue to explore. I have three drawings I want to finish before I completely move on but my meeting today helped me feel okay about working on other things at the same time. I’m going to try some new stuff and continue to work on charcoal. I may pick up gesso and ink again. I spent two hours cleaning up my studio and finally feel like it’s coming together. Going through old materials and work was so inspiring. I haven’t touched anything but charcoal in so long because I’ve been working in a tiny corner of my room and haven’t had space to lie out my art supplies!

I’ve been so overwhelmed with all these new things and people and have been so insane getting settled in (I feel like I haven’t slept in weeks and have continuously forgotten to eat all day…which makes me feel even more insane); I haven’t had a chance to be excited and I am sooo excited. 

Anyways here are some photos! 

Here's a smaller drawing I started. I may leave a lot of it as it is. I really liked the way the last drawing I made Bridge of Sighs came together and want to see where those breakthroughs lead in this drawing!

I drew this out almost a year ago. There are so many beautiful light shifts in the photograph and it is also my first interior! I can't wait to see how it comes together! 

I started this drawing almost a year ago as well. I was anxious to get another large charcoal drawing done and thought this wouldn't take that long. Anyways, I stopped working on it multiple times to work on other drawings and I think it's interesting to see the mixture of the small changes that have happened (because of other drawings I worked on) all in one drawing. 

So those are the three large drawings I want to keep just charcoal. I feel like this series will feel really resolved when they are complete. 

I hung up some old drawings that I found as well (see if you can spot them in the pictures of my studio!). I may go over some of them with gesso and go back into them with charcoal, or add things to them. Sooo here are the pictures! 

^Some of the photos I'm thinking of working from! I had some transparencies with photos and drawings on them and liked how some of them looked layered!