I’m taking a short trip to Toronto to attend the Social Media RoundTable at the Hilton Toronto (it’s actually today - but I haven’t slept yet).

Meanwhile, tonight I had dinner with a friend, Liz, and drew this portrait, which I think is one of my best. I never know what I’m going to come up, and I honestly don’t feel as if I know how to draw. On the other hand, when my portraits look at back at me, I know I’m close to done, if not done.

Often, I feel my drawings are too dark - but wasn’t Rembrandt’s drawings and etchings just as dark, if not darker? I think each person has to find the answer to what works for them - somehow, I’ve happened on using ball point pen, sometimes pencil too, as I did here - but the approach feels right for me.

And my notebooks, the most personal part, are meant to stay intact (I do my drawings facing each other - I don’t want to exhibit them outside the notebooks they were created in - even though, I was told, many would look great framed.

I updated the image which I cropped while waiting at the airport to board the flight to Toronto.