I realized I was feeling nervous about saying I was going to do these drawings every day in December. Feeling the pressure to do really wonderful things! So I thought I better just do some. Before December. Just to take some of that pressure off. So you know what to expect.
I took a square inch from the photo of the cover story on Sunday's Washington Post and turned it into an abstract colored pencil drawing, choosing the colors at random. I felt the need to work up the surface on this drawing and used more than one color in each section to create a texture, to satisfy that need.
I've written a synopsis of the story that went with the photo. It goes like this...
Post Square 11.24.13
“I believe I’m going to be a Democrat,” Ronald Hudson said,
laughing.
Ronald lives in the largely conservative, Republican state
of Kentucky, in Breathitt County,
one of the poorest and unhealthiest areas in this country.
Breathitt
County is where Courtney
Lively works as a health-care exchange navigator.
Courtney had just told Ronald, a 35-year-old who has never
had insurance and who has managed to acquire a considerable amount of medical
debt, that he is going to qualify for a medical card.
“Well, thank God,” he said.
Courtney avoids referring to the program that is helping so
many of her clients as Obamacare. And once she had to assure someone that the
requirement of having a microchip implanted in the arm in order to be enrolled
was only a rumor. But, for the most part, the many people she has helped find
affordable health care are very grateful.
One of the reasons the people of Kentucky are having success signing up for
health insurance is that the state set up its own exchange instead of using the
federal one, with its challenging Web site. Nevertheless, Breathitt County
serves as a place where the idea proposed by this administration, of affordable
health care for every American, works, as those who support the new law envision
that it can.
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