Charcoal

Nearly two years ago, when I bought a crow quill dip pen, I talked about not doing "flat art". And I'm still not very good at it. But I have been branching out.

One of the things I'm doing is playing with willow charcoal. Here's what I've done to date:

Study of one of Lisa Snellings' Poppets The Stag Who Caught the Sinking Sun in His Antlers The Starry Bull And if you can't tell what this one is... well, only two people have so far. Here's the reference photo: Colliding spiral galaxies

Other than this one, I'm pretty pleased so far. Charcoal is fun and easy to work with. I'd love to take a class, but money. Oh, well.

There's another project I'm working on, too, a pen and ink thing, but I'll put that in another post.