WILLOW GATHERING A BUCKET OF STARS FOR DADDY.
My second daughter Willow at the beach. She could not work out why it was that she could see the flashes in the water, but couldnt put them in the bucket for me,even though she was using her spade. It remains an image of the pursuit of impossible dreams. Only vine and compressed charcoal were used, but a vast variety of applicators. The tooth of the paper is used in a kind of reversal of oil technique,filling the tooth in the deepest blacks, and lightly skimming the surface in the half-lights..The lights and texture of the hat were all done with an eraser, frequently sharpened with a razor.
My second daughter Willow at the beach. She could not work out why it was that she could see the flashes in the water, but couldnt put them in the bucket for me,even though she was using her spade. It remains an image of the pursuit of impossible dreams. Only vine and compressed charcoal were used, but a vast variety of applicators. The tooth of the paper is used in a kind of reversal of oil technique,filling the tooth in the deepest blacks, and lightly skimming the surface in the half-lights..The lights and texture of the hat were all done with an eraser, frequently sharpened with a razor.
