Today was a good day to settle in for some quality time with pens. Anna's hummingbirds have been regularly visiting the feeder outside my studio window for the first time ever (lots of nectar has gone bad during my hopeful waiting) so they are entertaining and inspiring me this winter. I decided to work on making calligraphy look like hummingbird wings, like this:
The phone rang, I stopped writing, and while talking with my friend Joyce, I looked down on my slantboard and saw this:
Spilled white paint that has been there for a couple of years suddenly looked to me like people, so I decided to enhance the blobs with a gel pen to see what would emerge:
A story started to develop: Why does the girl look unhappy? She's
walking away from the guy, who is looking downcast…or is he simply
waiting at a bus stop in the cold? Is it 1920 or 1955, hence the girl's
muff, or is it today and she's keeping her iPod warm?
A little bit of background suggests a sense of location, and below this, for
the grand finale perspective, the overview: hummingbird
calligraphy, enhanced paint blobs, and inky slant board!
Jocelyn Curry 
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