Morning Smoke

This week I made candles. Jesse joined me and made his own. He's so very proud of his, he has it next to his bed and lights it each morning, (in fact, several times a day, as far as I can tell). Then he quickly blows it out so it doesn't burn down, and sits there enjoying the sweet scent of the smoke.

The other morning, he said to me, "I lit a match to make the morning smoke." I thought this was so fetching, I'd write it in my journal. Then I remembered Carla Sonheim suggested using sweet things kids say as titles for drawings. I started with a blind contour drawing of Jesse's candle and took it from there.

I remembered the facial expressions I'd learnt while drawing rabbits, and went for alert, concentrating and serious. I also remembered I'd vowed to try dirtier ink drawings, so added in lots of cross hatching and additional messy lines. Then I dirtied up the whole page using acrylic paints.

I'm rapt with how this turned out, especially because the whole piece is MINE without bits or styles directly copied from other artists. And like most of my pieces, I see that it's domestic in nature.

Comments

[Jessamy]

It's absolutely gorgeous, I love the combo of the darker dirty feel with the innocence of the bunny and the sweet saying of Jesse's.