A Discovery:
Part 3

I asked myself; how can I make this combination of image plus textured rubbings work and still involve some technical aspects of drawing? Why not practice placing the textured surfaces around and even layer them using old has-been drawings. I found the perfect throw-away item. It was an image of two large flowers (hard at the best of times to not sentimentalize) and a Russian bowl whose rim segued into a duck's head (something rather esoteric).
I worked fiendishly on this drawing, adding bits, erasing, and generally sweating over it. In the wee hours of the morning, the completed work met with some kind of intuitive, know-when-it's-right, cognitive reality. I burst into tears!
Now, people who know me have seen me burst into tears before; there was the image of Caravaggio's "Supper at Emmaus" located in the National Gallery in London, U.K. There was many a poignancy in viewing various Shakespeare productions at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival Theatre, Ontario, Canada (Othello, Hamlet, and The Tempest), and finally, I can cry over the sweet, innocence of young children and their thoughts. Ok, enough of that. I guess that what I'm trying to say is, I think I found my drawing niche!
This is the deciding factor drawing that spurred me on. Click on this image to enlarge.