“Night”, for Month of Fear 2020Melissa Sue Stanley5″x7″, graphite melis

“Night”, for Month of Fear 2020Melissa Sue Stanley5″x7″, graphite melissasuestanley.comA Study of Night: A lot of the work I’m doing lately involves dark woods, forests at night. Learning to draw these places better means spending time in this environment. Which is also something, until recently, I was extremely afraid of. This summer’s camping trips and evening forest explorations have allowed me to literally face that Fear. During my most recent late-night study of the woods I realized it’s the obscurity that causes my fear. In the darkest of dark, shapes blend together and stop making sense to the eye. The imagination runs wild on what can barely be seen. Even worse is the periphery. In the moonlight or firelight there are some rain-damp leaves that catch barely a glint of light, which can’t be seen when I look directly at it. But a turn of the head and the light is brighter in the periphery. Is it really a damp leaf? Or a will-o-the-wisp? Or something more sinister? For me the real Fear isn’t in monsters that are right in front of you: it’s in the intangible that plays with your eyes.  -- source link
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