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It Wasn't Easy Being Green

by Fred Lynch from Boston, Massachusetts, USA

"There is hope in honest error. None in the icy perfections of the mere stylist." 

The quote above is from the great Scottish architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and I was happy to find it in The Lighthouse, in Glasgow, on a recent trip. It was in that city that I thankfully also found some black drawing ink. The day prior, I had created two yucky drawings using green ink - the only ink I had brought on my trip. It was an ill-conceived idea to create every sketch in that color for a week in Scotland, and it was a big mistake. 

 

I'm someone who likes to work in monotone and thought that since my Italian works are created with brown ink, and my American works with black ink, why not use green ink for Scotland? Well, that sounded good, but it didn't end up looking very good. I found that the green was not neutral enough. In other words, it didn't surrender it's own color to represent everything in the picture. At least it didn't to my eyes. 

On this trip I ended up making what Mackintosh called an honest error in an effort to avoid the icy perfections of the mere stylist. Rather than working the same-old routines, which work for me, I tried something new... and flopped.

To keep the spirit of experimentation alive, for the rest of the trip I alternated between a few drawing materials, namely, colored pencil, ballpoint pen and black ink wash.

In the end, I went home with a number of works that I was proud of. Most of them were published here and here a couple of weeks ago. But, the good drawings have plenty honest errors too.

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