a la Van Gogh

Though the result seems a bit vague, I chose to use only diagonal lines. 

Thank you Post-Impressionists! 

X-ray of Egypt

Remember those advertisements on the back pages of comic books? Do you remember the quirky little cartoon of a boy wearing x-ray glasses? 
I imagined myself as an ancient Egyptian with x-ray glasses. Here I draw her seeing through to the skeleton of the lion in the cartouche of my name. Imagine looking into a sarcophagus! 

The Eyes Have It

Today, I wanted only to focus well on one feature.

The Orphan

This one perplexes me. I have the book 642 Things To Draw. The book is full of pages with empty boxes with a drawing prompt tucked in the corner. This one was labeled Orphan. 

I saw that word and was riveted to it. Both my parents had recently passed. Even though the word 'orphan' typically refers to a child, and I am well into late adulthood, I felt the weight of that word. My parents are gone.

I decided to draw me, the orphan.

It happened that the mirror I had set-up was elevated from where I sat. I paid no particular attention to this until I finished my sketch. By drawing myself looking up, I seemed to have drawn a young version of myself--which was quite unintended! Without being aware of it, I had drawn the child in me who misses her parents.