NOW AND THEN

NOW AND THEN | Charcoal and Pastel - 17”x 22”

Finished! I really enjoyed this one. I could easily talk myself into more modifying and shifting things around but I’m learning not to overwork a drawing to a point where the foundation is lost. (pinch zoom for details)

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About halfway through this, I remembered an essay by Loren Eiseley on his encounters with an injured gull that has always stuck with me, resonant as it is:

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“I came to look for the bird as though we shared some sane, enormously simple secret amidst a little shingle of hard stones and broken beach.

Here where the sea grinds coral and bone alike to pebbles, and the crabs come in the night for the recent dead. Here where everything is transmuted and transmutes, but all is living or about to live.”

Ships unframed, securely packed and insured to full value. Hand signature on reverse, and signed with fingerprint on front.