Husband would be horrified

After a completely rushed/stressful/data-crunching week at work I was able to leave early and catch the last Inspired by Books docent-led tour at the Mia for Hillbilly Elegy. blah blah blah it was wonderful as usual and I highly recommend. Afterwards, I wandered around lost again as usual. There is one little room in the Mia that is kept dark until you walk in. They have small collections of works in this little room. The lights go on when you walk in and if you contemplate too long in one spot the lights go off again and you have to wave your arms around. A few months ago it was drawings of George Morrison. This time it is collections of color. Delicate watercolors and chalks and charcoal and mixes. So worth seeing. I was inspired and when I got home I drew my husband sleeping on the couch wearing the headphones. Headphones because we live in a little house and I don't watch TV and he does, and I don't want to hear that noise of shooting and shouting and drama so he is kind enough to wear the headphones. And he falls asleep.

This little drawing uses water-soluble graphite and pencils. Quick and easy. As usual, the photo color is a bit off and I can't seem to fix. I'll try doing photoing in natural light. Husband is taller and not so fat so my proportions are a bit off. Maybe it took me 15 minutes tops. The WS pencils are a new favorite because I can do this quick. I can mix colors by overlaying pencils and then when the water is brushed on it's like magic--color happens!

In the little room, this simple self portrait by Oscar Kokoschka with chalk was one of the featured works; this was my inspiration tonight. Colored chalk was Kokoschka's favorite medium and he "deployed it with nervous lines." His work was "expressionistic in it's tendency to communicate internal emotional states rather than outward appearances." I'm not sure what chalk is? Is it the stuff we use to draw on sidewalks? Or is there fancy artist chalk? Is it another name for pastels which are chalky?

I think I may have captured husband's internal emotional state and some of his outward appearance. Husband would be horrified that I put drew him and that I put him on the blog. I won't tell him. He never asks to see what I've been working on. I think I'm safe. UPDATE: I DID show it to him and he said, "what is it?" He didn't even recognize the figure as human! This is why I show him nothing.