Testing using a full color background. It’s been a while.
Just getting into making something with more busy energy. Enclosing circles with elipses.
What is going on with this color scheme? Maybe only one more in this space. It’s strangely soft.
Checking my art supplies.
nylon japanese watercolor brushes — check.
aqueous pencils — check.
drawing pens — check
water color moleskine — check.
journal moleskine — check
sketchbook moleskine — check
pencil sharpener?
pencil sharpener?
Read MoreI will be away drawing in the mountains for a few days. So excited to have this time after missing it for the past two years! Expecting to have lots of fun stuff to share when I return.
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Still light. Easy.
Repeating my little football. I really like that form. I’m thinking of using it more repetitively. I love using the orange. Valencia!
Working with the same set of tools as the last drawing. Keeping a light touch. Looking at how these marks could move into an analog space with a substrate that will absorb the ink or pigment.
Thinking more about moving the drawings from the digital to the analog.
Excited.
Made some new brushes for this drawing. They respond to speed. When I draw fast they make a very thin line. As I slow down it becomes thicker. It has the feeling of using a device that is loaded with pigment and the substrate absorbs based on the time spent in any one spot.
Since I’m using a digital device this pigment doesn’t bleed but it reacts. Gonna try a couple more.
There’s something silly about this drawing. I’m enjoying the thick inky lines. Like paint markers.
It was a long day in the studio. I spent a considerable amount of time experimenting with new materials for a series of works on paper. I have been cutting pages of text from a number of exceptional design magazines to use in these works. The quality of these magazines means there is a great deal of care that had been taken in setting the type. That kind of care creates a color and rhythm over paragraphs.
I used one such page to create these test sketches.
These are several strips that I cut at different widths. They are all the same length. I was working on ordering and spacing them in a way that is consistent with the way I make my repetitive marks.
The spacing of the strips and the way the edges extend beyond the background sheet are also consistent with my need to break the defined boundaries that I set for myself. The strips are rotated to create different rhythms. These are a few snapshots I took to document my process.
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Decided to keep the same color palette and some flowing marker-like tools.
I’ve always loved making these elliptical shapes. They are like sea shells to me. After I had made this drawing I thought of mussels.
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