9. The Squatters Residency: extending the drawing down to the floor and beyond

Usually, it is fabulous waking up here with the light coming through the window – a slow snuggled contented wakeup, but last night’s wines were not the ones that help you sleep - it was a challenge to get up for the early bird fitness class this morning.  
 
Following planking to finish off the routine this morning, I was then stretching to hang my Annexe drawings next to the window in the second bedroom/studio.  These drawings became one on the wall after some consideration of hanging them with a gap, together or apart.   They don’t join perfectly but have a repetition in the middle which I like coupled with the blue artist tape that seems to have become part of the drawing too.  I work some more into the charcoal of this drawing.
 
My other big drawing of this large studio/bedroom in the Squat is now finished too with the inclusion of my Annexe drawing depicted within it, and with a second sheet extending the drawing into its floor and beyond.
 
My Instagram feed is inundated with fellow artists posts visiting Orange Regional Gallery’s current exhibition of Peter Godwin’s ‘Space light and time’.  His attention to the edges reminds me of Fran O’Neill’s guidance there too in her Drawing Marathon show-and-tell of some works that enliven her.  I see also that gorgeous local Tim Winter’s has an exhibition there.  I can’t wait for a visit to see a little of both their worlds.  Regional Galleries are soooo good.
https://www.orange.nsw.gov.au/gallery/exhibitions/