Needing a break from agonizing over my painting, I took a detour into flour drawing. I figured it might feel refreshing to experiment a bit so I sprinkled some flour onto a dark, smooth surface and grabbed a pencil. Freeing and fleeting, like drawing at the beach in wet sand with a stick, only it’s January and freezing outside so flour and a pencil would have to do.

The flour was sprinkled through a sifter, to get a somewhat even layer, on a 12×17 baking pan. Turns out that using a thin layer of flour works better than a thick layer – which was more like trudging through snow than drawing. After drawing the pears I used a very small sieve to carefully add more flour to heighten their whiteness and depth. Last thing – adding dried rosemary leaves.

When I liked a drawing I’d take a photo, scrape off the flour and start again. Fun!