At Last!

I've been spinning my wheels since Thanksgiving--since my husband was diagnosed with lung cancer.  It wasn't bad spinning them fussing with watercolors in Mexico, but here, at home in the gray of winter, painting was too demanding.  Concentration was lacking.  So I sketched nearly everyday mostly with a General 314 graphite pencil in 6" x 8" Strathmore sketchpad.  I worked fast and loose.  I had no patience for exerting control. Control demands calm.  I've been anything but calm.

--Until today.  Tomorrow, (Valentine's Day),  is my Valentine's surgery.  In twenty four hours, calmness will return.  At last, that tiny tumor will be history--but not sketching.  I'm looking forward
to some fast sketching in the waiting room and by next week, a loving few of honey sleeping on the couch. 

A disgruntled Republican, 6" x 8"

Senator Elizabeth Warren, 8" x 6". This gal is nobody's "yes man".

Waterslide, 8" x 6";  After all the political heads, a change of pace.

Juggling Under The Big Top, 6" x 8";  a change of pace exploring figures in motion.

The circus maybe a good subject, now that Barnum and Bailey's is no more?