14.12.2019 - drawing watercolour

Producing a drawing of a watercolour and ink image, scaled up x4

Working with water soluble graphite. It has a delicious density, so intense and grey. Shimmering in the light. Silky to apply with brush.

Process writing:

Stop resisting
I stroke you 
Lightly,
You leave no trace
Pressure exerted,
I layer
Still, you don't succumb
Putty in my fingers
I work you. 
Fragments breakaway
Eventually a little grace,
You smudge
And misbehave
But I know how to work you,
Wet
You surrender
And do as you are told.
                                       *graphite putty*

Your filth calls me
I want to get messy
Cover me
Under my fingernails
Into the cracks of my skin
Blemish my cheeks
Soil my clothes.
                               *charcoal dust*