As if all it took was the changing of the month at the top of the calendar, the garden is now a sea of pale, determined crocus buds. The parks too, filled with these delicate harbingers of Spring, so sure that they will be able to survive the charming-sounding -6°C predicted for later this week. I suppose that I wanted to tell you that here, at least, things are growing.
WORK-RELATED NEWS:
I'm full steam ahead (proceeding with the utmost speed, energy, and enthusiasm) on the universe illustration front, and this past Thursday my publishing team had a meeting to talk about cover designs and interiors and who knows what else, so I'm trying to remain calm while I wait to hear from them and dream up a thousand different possible book covers before dismissing them all one by one. They had received a mood board from me the previous week—me, as a mood, my thoughts and hopes for the front of a book I haven't yet finished creating—so no doubt we will all be on the same page.
Below is a very small piece from the in-progress illustration (I've stopped working on it to write the newsletter) for an entry about atoms.
Sometimes I am someone who works at a consistent speed, and for a long period of time, but as a general rule, when drawing, I don't know the top of an idea from the end of it, so we sit staring at each other in a slow and reluctant silence until something is set alight; my fingers twitch, and I will know exactly what I need to do, so can do it quickly (I will forget about the tea made just two minutes earlier, and it will go stone cold).
THIS WEEK I FELL IN LOVE WITH:
These graphite drawings by Pia-Mélissa Laroche.
"You have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness."
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
The end.
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