Graphite & Colored Pencil on Paper | Adrift by James Edward Scherbarth

A dark little boat rides across a wash of gray, with a blush of pink beneath it like dusk on the water.

Adrift is a drawing in hand colored graphite and pencil on paper by James Edward Scherbarth, dated 2020 and signed and dated 08-14-2020 on the verso. Soft graphite layered with colored pencil can build mood with very little detail, which suits a subject as open as drift. A rough block of gray scribbles fills the upper center. Across it lie two long hull shapes, one outlined and one filled in dark gray, curving like boats. Faint pink hatching glows below them, and loose threads of line trail downward. It is 7 inches wide and 10 high.

No oars in sight, and no apparent need for any.