ruling pens (five pack 25+four on writing)

Raw was done with a wide hake brush on 12×18 sulfite paper. I used a light grey muddy wash and pushed the color to blue in the computer. , I love how the rough ruling pen meets the sharp flat brush on Libra. , Jumping with Roman Capitals and popups , I often have trouble with the letter “S”. But the rest of Squeeze came out ok. , This Dragonfly was done on the big sheets (like “Raw” above). They’re a pain to scan! , Cya next time! , PS—The Writing Life, Annie Dillard, 1989 I listened to The Writing Life, after Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. It was a fortuitous mistake from conflating the authors’ names. Dillard discusses the struggle of writing as a profession, “splitting wood by aiming for the chopping block”. She doesn’t digress into the darkness of her soul, nor the mundane tasks of her profession, aside from the admonition to love a sentence. It’s a great book on honing the craft. Focus on the work. Ignore the metrics. Do the art. Her prose a breathtaking display of skill. Dillard is…