I’m proud to begin the 12th year of daily blog posts on this blog. I’ve tried each day to present a visual rendering of something interesting from my external environment or something from my internal domain that I endeavor to make visible.
I start the new year with line drawings. Before each sketch, I have no idea what the outcome will be. I take the point of my pen on a walk, see where it goes and what other lines or marks it inspires. I hope this method yields compelling results.
Meditation Series
Pen and Ink with Watercolor Wash
© 2025 Jack Davis
In the first of this series, I started with the blue line and followed it with the yellow curve. The eyelash-like blue marks led to completing the representing the rest of the eye at the vertices of intersecting lines. The fact that a new year is beginning made me think of Janus, the Roman god with one face looking forward to the future and one looking backward to the past. I don’t know which way to look in 2025, so the eye icons in this piece look everywhere.
I like the look of this and also your interpretation of it. Should we be looking everywhere in worry about what might be approaching? Or in interest and anticipation of something that will be expansive in a good way? Your drawing took me to these thoughts. And reminds me that this year I hope to view things from a more positive perspective.
I’m hoping to be positive, but as in the drawing, I don’t have a unified way to face 2025. Thanks for the comment, Claudia.
That’s quite an accomplishment Jack. Congratulations! I like the idea of seeing where the line takes you. (K)
Thanks, Kerfe. It is a daunting task. Sometimes inspiration does not come.
I know the feeling.
;>)