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June 10, 2005
Grit in the charcoal
Sometimes you get that bit of grit in the end of the charcoal pencil which stops the marks flowing and everything becomes hard and scratchy. Embrace this, use the resulting broken line to help you find the form. Work the problem. Dwell in the incompleteness of the product, relish the choice now available to you. You have been thrust back into the days of uncertainty when the pen was dipped and the paper was not always the same thickness.
Okay, so sometimes the whole shooting match comes to a halt with a bit of grit the size of Gibraltar. In this case resort to plan B: get in with the knife and carve out the offending lump to reveal the fresh black soft core of the thing.
Posted by john at June 10, 2005 10:37 AM
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