— stella untalan : artlog

Scrib­bling thin scratchy lines are won­der­ful. I can hear the sounds even on the iPhone.

Actu­ally that’s the thing I really miss on the iPhone. The tex­ture of the paper and the sound of a draw­ing imple­ment being drawn across a sur­face. Here’s another from the series of tools and palette I made.

Another draw­ing where I’ve used a color back­ground. Float­ing marks. A danc­ing cos­mos. I made another set of tools. I’m start­ing to get some new kind of lay­er­ing here. Also under­stand­ing how to cre­ate some addi­tional soft­ness.

The project con­tin­ues to be inter­est­ing each day. Some­thing new hap­pens. Some new inves­ti­ga­tion. One of the biggest advan­tages to step out­side of some of the work I’ve been doing on paper in the stu­dio is that I can’t be pre­cise in this iPhone form. My fin­ger is too big, the prox­im­ity of my fin­ger and where the mark appears are not so easy to gauge, the space in which I’m draw­ing is so small.

Work­ing with the same palette and tools. Think I may try another.
This is feel­ing flighty.

Inspired by the col­ors of the sea­son

Back to another kind of thinking.

Work­ing with the same palette that I used in my win­ter twins series that I com­pleted last year around this time.  The recent snow brought me back to my min­i­mal­ist ten­den­cies. It’s won­der­ful to think about all that stuff just under the sur­face that a crust of translu­cent frozen snow obscures. Some lit­tle bits break the sur­face and indi­cate their full form.

Get­ting the draw­ings up on the blog is some­times the most dif­fi­cult part of the project.

I feel as though I should say some­thing about the process each time. Some­thing dis­cov­ered. Some dif­fi­culty. Some revelation.

It’s not always that easy to ver­bal­ize what hap­pened when I made the draw­ing. I have to look at it for a cou­ple days and ask myself ques­tions. Today that ques­tion is : How will what I just learned mak­ing this draw­ing make it’s way into my ana­log draw­ings?
One of the things I have been appre­ci­at­ing is lev­els of trans­parency in the marks I am mak­ing. How do I want to use that in the studio?

I also decided to add a smaller image in the post so you can see it in bet­ter res­o­lu­tion. We’ll see how that works ongo­ing. I’ll prob­a­bly update the pre­vi­ous posts before I have too many to update.

I guess the last few days have built up to a more is more drawing.

I enjoyed mak­ing the many lay­ers of this image. Using more of the tech­nique that i use in my non dig­i­tal draw­ings — many lay­ers using each to oblit­er­ate or obscure the layer below. Let­ting marks peek out between the spaces.

Another set of brushes and a refine­ment of the color palette.

I used some new pat­terns to cre­ate a new marks from famil­iar gestures.

I found these marks to be dif­fer­ent than I had antic­i­pated. They cre­ated dif­fer­ent pat­terns with each small change. This was really good fun and didn’t hap­pen quite as fast as the final draw­ing appears.

Test­ing vari­a­tions on my new brushes.

Pretty crazy some of these marks. Still lov­ing every minute of doing a draw­ing a day.

Using some of the same marks that I have added to my toolkit.

I’ve also started cre­at­ing my own color palette. Mov­ing beyond the default swatches. Mov­ing to a set of col­ors that I can use for a whole series of images before need­ing to change.