Monday, May 5, 2014

School is out for summer...

...and so the sketchbook drawing commences.  Looking forward to the discoveries and activity everyday in the coming weeks!  To kick things off, some May Day celebratory drawings of flowers.

Sketchbook page, May Day Birthday #1, marker, 
 and pen on paper, 9" x 12"

Sketchbook page, May Day Birthday #2, marker, 
 and pen on paper, 9" x 12"

Sketchbook page, May Day Birthday #3, marker, 
 and pen on paper, 9" x 12"

Sketchbook page, Finlay Park 2014 #1, marker, 
 and pen on paper, 9" x 12"

Sketchbook page, Finlay Park 2014 #2, marker, 
 and pen on paper, 9" x 12"

Haymarket: May Day, by Burton Jerome Barnett, 1939
August Spies: You may strangle this voice, but there will be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.
Albert Parsons: O men of America, let the voice of the people be heard!

Still bright, and searing ignorance and fear, 
This stronger beacon that you tended burns 
And on this day of each advancing year 
The memory of that first May First
returns.

But now the widespread fingers strengthen, 
grow 
More lithe, and flexing at the wrist--
O fingers forming to the fist!

Now is the imminence of commmonweal--
The turgid lambency of molten iron
Hardening in even lines of steel.

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