Adele - 2026 02 20 - Jenny Arntzen
Adele - 2026 02 20 - graphite, pencil crayon, pen and ink, acrylic ink on paper - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Adele was standing on her couch looking at me with beady expectancy. I had gone into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee and that was enough to put her on high alert for a stick of celery or a slice of apple. She was ready to leap for the food. Adele is ferocious about food and eating. I wondered how her pose would translate into a drawing. I've been using a mycological approach to building the image in a drawing. Starting with very light, loose graphite in a mechanical pencil. Tracing edges with an imprecise line, hoping to capture an overall sense and feeling without the didactic heavy-handedness of false certainty. What I am looking at, and what translates into a lively drawing, this is the space where magic happens. I believe in magic. I need magic in my life. I pretty much need it everyday, sensations of wonder, joy, disappointment, frustration: learning. These experie...