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View from the Crack, Killarney Provincial Park – Pencil Drawing
INTRODUCTION
I enjoy
sketching and drawing with graphite pencils of varying softness on a variety of
different papers. I also enjoy the immediacy of sketching with felt pens filled
with black ink.
Drawing with
a graphite pencil and pen and ink would seem to be much easier than making a
painting with color, but nothing could be further from the truth. Drawing with
a graphite pencils and pen and ink requires a great deal of thought, as what is
easy to express in color must be interpreted in shades of grey. It’s possible
to have two different colours side by side of the same value, but not shades of
grey.
I once
exhibited commercially. Now retired, I simply make sketches and drawings for personal enjoyment,
and to be shared with friends and family. What better way to tell a story, or
to share one’s travels, than through a sketch, or drawing.
The following
pages contain drawings, and sketches in varying shades of grey, some
recent, and some made many years ago. All are memories of my time spent making
art.
Ernest
Somers 2013
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Wednesday, 12 February 2014
SHADES OF GREY - DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES BY ERNEST SOMERS
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