I've been trying to retire, but COVID-19 keeps getting in the way. Lockdowns and restricted travelling require that we spend much of our time at home. At first it's not too bad, one can get caught up on some reading and watch a few movies in-between the weekly foray to shop for perishable groceries. But, this soon gets tiring, so in the couple of months I've pulled together a couple of books, collections of my prose and poetry written during the past few years.....
Should anyone be interested in previewing these books they're available through Blurb Publishing. Should you visit their website go to the bookstore and either type in the title, or my full name, Ernest Andrew Somers, and this should take you not only to these books but my series of art books.
Also, to pass the time until we can freely roam I've taken to doing some doodling, or making memory sketches of various Canadian wilderness places....
Doodling, sketching from memory, is a great way to experiment. If we accept that the doodles are simply experiments with only learning value, then we can go crazy and sketch away using a variety of tools and papers with no regard for the result. We might also consider making use of a drawing program on your computer, perhaps even a combination of both freeing up creativity we never knew that we had.
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Georgian Bay. Digital Landscape |
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Northern Ontario Landscape. Pencil Sketch. 2020 |
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Food Lake - Killarney Prov. Pk. Graphite Study This study was to be a watercolour painting, however, I got carried away and instead of making a rough outline I ended up with something a bit short of a detailed drawing. |
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