a drawing...

One of my dearest friends is getting married tomorrow. It's been awe-inspiring, to watch her and her man become one. Tomorrow they seal it.

Julie asked for a drawing as a wedding gift.

I didn't know where to start. But I thought about the richness the combining of Julie and Laverne's lives has brought... and how their love is a sort of surrender of boundaries, a willingness to be reshaped a little... to become part of something more complex and mysterious, something new...

...and here's what came:

Here's a closer (blurrier) shot:

Sorry, cell phone pictures aren't just super with detail. 

I'm a little hooked on the abstract feel of the combination of India ink and oil pastel. One of these days, I'll do a detailed graphite or charcoal again...

Art critics, what say ye?