July 8, 2020

I'm just not feeling any passion for the drawing lately, but I am going to keep at it several times a week, because it is a skill I want. I didn't do drawing or calligraphy yesterday because I got a traffic ticket for like 83 in a 60 mile zone, and yesterday at 9am I had court. Which, I have found out I could have just paid online, but whatever. I plead guilty, paid my money, and got the info the the online safe driver program that I should complete so I can get some of the points taken off my record. I should have done that right away yesterday, but I did not feel like it, and I don't particularly feel the desire to do it today either. 

However, I did get the first sample woven on #RLTS4 woven, so that warp is obviously reasonably happy. However, when slaying the reed, I managed to skip two different dents in the reed totally, and I wanted at least a couple of samples with the voids still there, because I want to see how they react after they are off the loom and washed and used, as this could be a really cool decretive thing to do on purpose, but after that, I kinda want to fill in that space, and I am trying to decided what I would be most happy with. A couple of the things I have thought of is to put two threads into each dent, and randomly choose which heedle to have them go though. They would be off pattern, but I think off pattern would still be better than a gap. Another option would be to fill that with one thread that is thicker, either in a thicker white linen, or a thicker thread of some other color. Since most of the kitchen towels will be for mom, I should ask her what she might desire.  

I also have had the yardage from #RLTS3 hanging around for months, mostly because while I washed it many times, I never ironed it! Argh! So, I ironed it to a fare thee well, cut it up, and packaged up samples and cap lengths(just AC and TE) for Katrina O, Alex C, and Teka E. I had about 2 yards left, and one of them will go to Kat F, and I think I will make what remains into some kitchen towels. I might label them so I can keep track of how they hold up over the years.  Oh, and seem to have lost the yardage for the cap that I had meant to send to Alex C from #RLTS2. I have 2's samples in my sample book, but no idea where her cap fabric went. Which is why I am sending her the stuff from 3. 

I did my drawing today, and the faces I tried to follow the directions from Jack Hamm's book Drawing the head and figure, first page. I think the first (far right) head looks the best, much better then the second at least! He has further detailed directions on the face, but I am somewhat impressed by how much they already look like faces. I think my most unhappiness is with the hair and mouth.  Also, while this is supposed to be a generic woman's face, it seems very much a generic white woman's face. The book was written in 63, so that is somewhat understandable, if unfortunate. I think I will need to look around to see how to draw other faces. In later pages, he talks about the differences in male faces, but again, it is generic white guy face. 

The cats are from a picture from the internet. The first one (body face on) looks more like a monster face I think then a cat's face, but I think the second one looks better. I have included the picture I tried to copy from, but I forgot to save attribution, so I have no idea where it came from.