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PHOTO FRIDAY ....A...AGAIN AGEING 
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Ageing in a sea of time.....
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I did this drawing a decade ago.....
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Interesting painting , Beautiful. I really like it! "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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Oh Sparkle your drawing brings lots of things to mind. At first glance I thought it was someone with sagging boobs. Your imagination can run wild. Hey you know what you could probably do a drawing for every letter of the alphabet. Well done Sparkle!
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Very interesting drawing indeed, really amazing. 
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Quite a clever drawing! I like it, it is unusual. 
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Interesting painting , Beautiful. I really like it!
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As the tide changes among the many islands, the current gets really strong running like a river, creating huge whirlpools that can swallow a boat. In order to travel in these conditions, we need to be aware of the tide at all times....They are predictable and the tidal conditions are available in booklets, radio, online etc......There is a narrow pass that I had to traverse regularly, called White Rock Pass......It has markers on either end that you have to line-up in order to avoid the reefs.....One day, I had stayed too long at my friend's house and the tide was running faster than was really safe, but it was going my way and I decided to risk it......At low tide, the kelp was visible, streaming in the current........I was skimming along on top of the heads, making sure I was in line with the markers, and simultaneously avoiding getting tangled in the kelp.......I made it by the skin of my teeth....... I loved the thrill, the test of skill, the speed.........The next day I did a painting I called Super-Kelp, because those kelp heads with their rippling, streaming frond looked like a Super Hero flying through the air.......
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Oh Sparkle your drawing brings lots of things to mind. At first glance I thought it was someone with sagging boobs. Your imagination can run wild. Hey you know what you could probably do a drawing for every letter of the alphabet. Well done Sparkle!
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Very interesting drawing indeed, really amazing.
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Quite a clever drawing! I like it, it is unusual.
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Years ago, I was standing in the bow of a ferry as it was coming into port, about a hundred miles South of the Alaska Panhandle ,where the waters cloe to shore are full of Bull-Kelp. I was surrounded by a group of German tourists who were peering over the railing as we docked. The ferry has super-chargers for docking, so it can stop......massive amounts of sea water are sucked in and then pushed out in order to stop the ferry............The created water turmoil got those big kelps with their snake-like stems, huge heads with long fronds hanging just thrashing in the water Bull Kelp before were screaming and shouting as the looked into the water......It took me a while to realize what was going on.....they thought the kelp was some kind of animal and thought they were trying to jump into the boat to eat them....... "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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So you're the kind of person who posts comments on the blogs of people you don't allow to comment on your blogs........ I can't quite put my finger on the exact cause, but I always feel polluted when I read your poems. Once I reflexively deleted your poem/comment on my blog...for the same reason I remove spiders from my house.......and you flipped out.......I don't want you to flip out, so I will just kindly request that you refrain from commenting on my blogs in the future.
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I'm glad you decided to post your drawing - it's not too weird at all. There seems a lot going on - 'sea of aging' seems appropriate. I like the interesting lino-cut effect/patterns - how did you do that - with an eraser? The drawing has a subterranean feel.
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I'm glad you decided to post your drawing - it's not too weird at all. There seems a lot going on - 'sea of aging' seems appropriate. I like the interesting lino-cut effect/patterns - how did you do that - with an eraser? The drawing has a subterranean feel. The mother of a boyfriend in my 20s, was an artist who was going through a period where she only embossed.....No other marking on the paper.....just white on white texture/shapes.......I helped her in her studio and learned a lot.......
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I looked at the picture, but didn't have have time to make comments, so I left, intending to come back. I did, but wasn't sure what I wanted to say, so I left again. Then last night, I put pepper on my soup and sneezed and..... well, the thought came to my mind that pepper makes me pee, and for some reason I thought of your picture. I'm intrigued by the busy-ness of it, yet the continuity at the same time. You put a lot of detail into each square inch and that had to be time consuming. The whole thing is wide open to individual interpretations and I see it as the flow of old age can become confusing as our bodies make various changes. You are definitely talented and obviously enjoy art, evidenced by the way you have studied various aspects of it throughout your life. I enjoyed your stories of the kelp too. I wonder, if you were to paint a similar painting today, being a decade older, what changes would you make? Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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I looked at the picture, but didn't have have time to make comments, so I left, intending to come back. I did, but wasn't sure what I wanted to say, so I left again. Then last night, I put pepper on my soup and sneezed and..... well, the thought came to my mind that pepper makes me pee, and for some reason I thought of your picture. I'm intrigued by the busy-ness of it, yet the continuity at the same time. You put a lot of detail into each square inch and that had to be time consuming. The whole thing is wide open to individual interpretations and I see it as the flow of old age can become confusing as our bodies make various changes. You are definitely talented and obviously enjoy art, evidenced by the way you have studied various aspects of it throughout your life. I enjoyed your stories of the kelp too. I wonder, if you were to paint a similar painting today, being a decade older, what changes would you make? Also, today, I vacuumed a lot and now my back is sore.....I went shopping on Friday and bought many very expensive things, including this computer, some leather boots that are a marvelous deep reddish brown and a ridiculous purse that looks like a 1950's version of a futuristic robot.....I went into this small boutique I really like while waiting for my daughter and was very attracted to that purse.....I left without buying it....But I returned.....I very rarely indulge such a flight of fancy, but the owner offered it to me for half price and I took it home....I think my inner 13 year old took charge.... 
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I'm glad you enjoyed it....The drawing is all done with rapidograph pen.......the texture is all ink lines.......I then coloured some of it with Prisma colour pencils.......I used a cotton paper called "Stonehenge", which Is my favourite paper for this kind of application.......It's made for embossing........I developed a technique where I emboss damp paper using various tools, my favourite being a ball-point pen that is empty of ink.......I draw with it, making ruts in the paper, then I use pencil or pencil crayons over top and the grooves show up as white lines.........I bought a lot of the Stonehenge for embossing and started using it for all my drawing....... The mother of a boyfriend in my 20s, was an artist who was going through a period where she only embossed.....No other marking on the paper.....just white on white texture/shapes.......I helped her in her studio and learned a lot.......
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Thanks for explaining what I think a fascinating technique. I've never heard of cotton paper, which by your description seems quite versatile/open to a variety of applications/techniqes (?). I very much respect your symbolic, highly detailed work.
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