Michael Nobbs

Selfietember Day #21

View of my morning drawing set-up on the bed. An open pocket sketchbook rests on a red-and-white patterned cover of a second sketchbook, showing a self-portrait drawn across the spread in loose dark reddish-brown lines over a pale cobalt-blue wash. The portrait shows my bald head, large round glasses, short beard and moustache, with the eyes looking slightly upwards. A pale blue Neocolor II crayon and dark watercolour pencil lie beside the sketchbook. At the upper left, a round mirror reflects my face; nearby are a small white light, a folded piece of printed text, a blue-and-white checked cloth and an orange mug of tea.

A calmer, later morning drawing today. I was awake for a few hours in the night, so it was about 6.30 by the time I made my tea, came back to bed and picked up my sketchbook.

The light in the window behind my head was noticeably brighter this morning, so I put down a wash of Neocolor II Cobalt Blue 5% first, then drew over it with a Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle watercolour pencil in Carmine Lake.

No deep questioning or mysterious symbolic mark-making today. Just tea, a mirror and a morning self-portrait.

Close-up photograph of a self-portrait drawn across an open spread in a small pocket sketchbook. The face is outlined loosely in dark reddish-brown watercolour pencil, with large round glasses, a bald head, short beard and moustache, and the eyes looking slightly upwards. A pale wash of cobalt blue fills much of the background around the head, leaving the face mostly white. The drawing is dated 21-9-26 at the bottom right. The sketchbook rests on the red-and-white patterned cover of a second sketchbook, with a pale blue Neocolor II crayon and a dark watercolour pencil lying alongside it..

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