Gold to Gray

     

           Here is a drawing just finished up this weekend.  This is the purpose we started posting drawings - to get me to do a little more drawing, and to figure out how to get it presented half decently.  This piece is actually a followup for an earlier post - Gray and Gold - but done from a much closer perspective.  The former, an evening sketch; the later, a morning one.  A morning in which the sun was casting shadows over all the weathered wood. The paint if there had ever been some is leaving very little evidence now of its  presence.   I had a  little time a few Saturdays ago while Grandmother Ruth was getting her hair done! so I beat it across town and was able to get the sketch which this weekend turned into a drawing.  (It's a thin line I guess in my case between a sketch and a "bona fide" drawing.)  It was a warm, dry, sunny morning but still a little before the sweat began to roll!  This is one of those subjects that could inspire a bucket full of drawings. 

Sibleyville Rd.

 This place is along the road headed east from South Haskell, before you take the south jog to Baldwin. I guess this is now South 1000 Road. Should be on the north side of  the road. There are many stories that go with this stretch of road. Maybe you could tell more than I.  Bumming gas one night from a farmer living along there because I neglected to check the gauge before heading out is one story. Another time winding along that road alone at night with ever decreasing headlights due to a failing alternator- not a pleasant memory! Recently we were along there headed to the Helwig's for a work day that turned out to be a great encouragement for them in their recent health struggles. Further east from here just before you get to the old Morgan "homestead" was about the south west reach of the school bus route I ran from Eudora in the early 1970's.  I have done more than one drawing along this road, and I am sure forgotten many stories...but here is a fairly recent drawing done mostly on location. 

"Tell Me"

Here is another study of negative space.

The branches with the roof line produce good negative space.

I have not been able to locate this place again.

One of those drawings the idea for which

I know came from somewhere close by here.

But where I cannot tell. Anyone have any ideas;

maybe you can tell me!

Also I think the drawing has a symmetry that does it well...

Kim, I do think I have figured out how to get consistent formatting each time. We will see!