Getting your hands dirty!

Feeling the charcoal in your fingers. Pushing, pulling, smudging it across the page. Paring down the process to the basics: a stick of charcoal and a piece of paper. Free from the distractions of colour. The moulding of shapes, as if done by hand. The sensuality of a curve.

The use of paper is a deliberate decision to create space around the object/subject so that it is pure. Clean, crisp edges, uncluttered, open, not closed in.