How to Procrastinate #1

Charlemange @ Notre Dame | watercolour, pencil, ink & pencil crayon | 4″ x 6″

1. When cleaning the studio become distracted by poorly executed, failed and abandoned sketches or paintings and make feeble attempt to resurrect or fix them.

(I had all sorts of grand plans to paint my own postcards while on my travels last summer. I managed to paint, write and post 2. I got caught in a rain shower with this one, the third, so it ended up a bit destroyed – paint flowed into carefully planned negative spaces, wouldn’t dry fast enough in the damp and smeared during transport, and an attempt to save it with an over-drawing in ink just made things worse.)

Charlemange @ Notre Dame | holga pinhole | fuji pro 400h

Charlemange is way off in the distance in the center. The busy square emptied out when the shower hit and everyone ran for cover. This is just afterward, when they started to come back.

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Inkonwove is a blog by me, illustrator/designer Kirsti Wakelin.

This blog contains a sample of much of the things that go into my working life. With everything from notifications on work added to my illustration and design portfolio, to work-in-progress and process sketches, pages from my sketchbook, odds and ends that interest me, the occasional non-art related ramble or up-close and personal photographs of invertebrates, Inkonwove is a kind of artistic junk drawer.

I also maintain another blog over at My Secret Elephant where the work I do for children's books, and everything about that subject, ends up.

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