The Missing Shade of Blue

Page from an art journal. Collage on Moleskine sketchbook paper. 

…[David] Hume’s idea that although all our knowledge of the world comes through our senses, a man shown a series of graduating blues with a missing shade could intuit its colour from somewhere within himself…

(From a book review in The Guardian.)

Female head study, graphite & white pencil on recycled/brown paper. 

I am forever indebted to anonymous girls on the internet for the infinite supply of photo references. To each one, thank you, beautiful lady, wherever you are. I would be a lesser artist if it weren’t for your generosity and/or low self-esteem. 

I was talking to someone about drawing girls. It has been too long since I’ve done any drawing, and way too long since I’ve done any drawings of girls. I maintain that drawing girls is more difficult because the details are more subtle. I think his point was that he prefers drawing girls because GIRLS. I conceded. 

Zero 

Oil & graphite on panel, 12×12". 

I feel like I should offer some sort of explanation for this but I don’t have one. I just like it. I can’t think of anything I could do to it that wouldn’t make it worse, which is as good a definition of “finished” as any.