
Stables slip road, North Somerset.
/ˈdrɔː(r)ɪŋ/
noun
1. a picture or diagram made with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint.
“a series of charcoal drawings on white paper”
synonyms: sketch, picture, illustration, representation, portrayal, delineation, depiction, composition, study, diagram, outline, design, plan, artist’s impression; tracing
“he did a pencil drawing of the house”
2. an instance of selecting the winner or winners in a lottery or raffle.
“entrants need not be present at the drawing”

Stables slip road, North Somerset.
It always feels saying goodbye to an old friend.

This is drawn from adasanserre’s Guest Directed Self Portrait number 10 submission. You can see the other submissions here.
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“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
“Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint……Picasso was the first person to produce figurative paintings which overturned the rules of appearance; he suggested appearance without using the usual codes, without respecting the representational truth of form, but using a breath of irrationality instead, to make representation stronger and more direct; so that form could pass directly from the eye to the stomach without going through the brain.”
