Grief and red ink

Dear Sarah - Day 309 of our daily drawing exchange

Hi Sarah -

we are sitting at our gate at the airport in Ottawa, waiting to board our final flight of this rather long trip. We’re booked on the last shuttle of the night (from the Calgary airport back to Canmore), which we should easily catch providing there are no major delays between now and our scheduled arrival time.

We should be at home and tucked into bed by midnight tonight.

Today’s image fits in toward the very end of the Rome project, which wound up taking me in an unexpected direction. I am just hoping it all flows ok and makes some kind of internal sense because I’m about out of time to do too much more on this project.

Now back at work on the Paris bridges project, which is also causing me some trouble as I have a LOT to say, but that isn’t really the point. What I need to do is distill a rather large experience into a second zine (to be paired with “Found Zine”), a format by definition short and compact (and due at the same time as Rome, so there just isn’t a lot of time to do a ton of drawing).

Which is why I’m going to sign off now and pull my iPad out to see if I can start noodling around with some pages that might work to get my point across (which also means I need to figure out what point I’m trying to make with that project).

Expect to see more drawings of bridges in the days to come…

Nikki

Hi Nikki,

I bought a small bottle of red ink for my dip pen and fooled around with it a bit today. It’s not the red I wanted (too orange) but it makes some interesting effects with watercolour.

Glad to hear you will be sleeping in your own bed soon.

XO S