Tindaisies

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And the angel said unto them, Fear not:

for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

I was able to spend a part of Thursday afternoon doing what I would really like to do everyday. That is, sitting at my drafting table with a stack of small pieces of paper and a chosen medium, drawing whatever comes to mind with little or no pre thought. When I do this, I try not to pass too much judgement on what appears on the paper, only accepting what is there and working with what happens. Often, one drawing spurs the next. A lot of stars, comets and spacey stuff was happening and that turned into more spiritual thoughts. At about drawing number 6, I switched to my Pitt India  ink pens because I was battling the dip pen nibs.

Interesting things happen when you draw like this. I was listening to Christmas music, I believe it was The Vienna Boy’s Choir. I was also eating those little chocolate balls that come wrapped in coloured foil papers. I took a pair of scissors and began to cut a green foil into small rectangles and I scattered them onto the drawing I was working on. That’s how the first drawing in this post came to be. The next two, obviously followed.

Eleven simple ink drawings appeared that afternoon. These are my three favourite.

Merry Christmas!