Own work: sketches towards 'The Great Stone'

 

      I thought I'd share with you the sketches I have made so far as I work towards a new pen and ink drawing 'The Great Stone'.  Hopefully it'll give you a good idea of the process of creating an artwork.

Own work: new Monoprint

      The first complete work I have done in a while, and for that I have to be thankful. However compared to the monoprint I posted last month this is clunking affair, stiff and over drawn. In short a disappointment. 15x12.5 cms, 120 mgs paper.  Monoprint and biro

June

June by John Clare (1793-1864)

Now summer is in flower, and Nature's hum
Is never silent round her bounteous bloom;
Insects, as small as dust, have never done
With glitt'ring dance, and reeling in the sun;
And green wood-fly, and blossom-haunting bee,
Are never weary of their melody.
Round field and hedge, flowers in full glory twine,
Large bind-weed bells, wild hop, and streak'd woodbine,
That lift athirst their slender-throated flowers,
Agape for dew-falls, and for honey showers;
These o'er each bush in sweet disorder run,
And spread their wild hues to the sultry sun.
The mottled spider, at eve's leisure, weaves
His webs of silken lace on twigs and leaves,
Which ev'ry morning meet the poet's eye,
Like fairies' dew-wet dresses hung to dry.
The wheat swells into ear, and hides below
The May-month wild flowers and their gaudy show.