Birdness

Today’s journal page is based on a photo of two of my ceramic birds, which in turn were based on vessels I threw on the potter’s wheel. There is something meta-ish about doing a drawing of a sculpture, but I also found it exciting to be intimately familiar with the forms I was drawing, having sculpted them: I could ignore the visual and enhance the tactile, and it would not ring false. I KNEW these birds.

Here is the page:

And here is the photo it derives from, of my two bird sculptures:

It’s plain to see I took great liberties with the image. I might have felt less free to do so were the sculptures someone else’s creation.