A Meditation on Emptiness

Empty Pot

Still working on charcoal drawings of everyday things. I chose this subject as an exercise on how closely I could control the dark tones. It takes a lot of cross hatching and rubbing to get a solid black. I used a chamois cloth and quickly rubbed in a light gray tone over the entire paper then worked or erased into that. The subject matter of this drawing seems to be the dark space within the pot than the pot itself, like it is some kind of Zen koan.

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