two/ ten

today everything’s a mess. i knew this was going to happen, because it often does when i’m like this. it’s my own fault for looking too often at the reference picture and also just messing around with the whole process.

i’m not sure how i did the ones i do like. i sometimes draw a few lines with a pencil, top bottom horizon line & the darker bits. did i do that yesterday? i think i did with the second one. then go to oil pastels: start at the top and go down.

i was thinking too much, because i just didn’t know where to start this time. do i use bigblocks of colour & then add the little details? do i start with darks or lights? i’m pretty sure i've also done the pencil lines-thing with a light colour oil pastel; ash grey or cream or silver grey. the first few drawings, but after that, i can’t remember.

i think i’m looking too much at the bits that are made up of many tiny bits, where earlier i squeezed my eyes and looked for the larger areas. i’m not sure. definitely thinking too much.

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something that did make me happy, today, was finding out about american tonalism. entirely my thing, at the moment & maybe longer. i feel lots of study coming, the good kind, the kind being fuelled by curiosity.