In the studio : March — The yellow drawings.

I’ve begun a new series of draw­ings. Again on syn­thetic paper. It’s really the smooth­ness of the paper that moti­vates the most recent work. Every­thing sits on the surface.

I haven’t done any mask­ing in quite some time. I usu­ally make a grid but I don’t usu­ally tape it off. This time I’m inter­ested in break­ing the bar­rier with the con­tin­u­a­tion of a line tak­ing advan­tage of the space the mask takes away. I’ve been using graphite and gouache maybe some­thing else will sneak into the pieces. They are a response to the sun and wind in recent days. It’s really hard to say much more. I don’t want to start think­ing about what they are or what they will become while they are still unfinished.

This is what they are right now.

work­table.

Mask­ing areas for a color wash.

finally unmasked.