Monthly Archives: January 2012

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drawing-a-day 01202012

drawing01202012

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 Read More …

musings with a perfect cup

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Sweet. I have the most awe­some cof­fee kit at my stu­dio. A won­der­ful Cusi­nart drip pot and grinder. That means mak­ing the cof­fee for when I’m there is as much a plea­sure as drink­ing it. I Read More …

drawing-a-day 01192012

drawing01192012

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 Read More …

Looking forward.

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In the afternoon—in my stu­dio. Just tak­ing my lunch out of the microwave and look­ing toward the future. Spent a great day in my stu­dio this week. I haven’t  had as many hours as as Read More …

drawing-a-day 01182012

drawing01182012

Work­ing with the same palette and tools. Think I may try another. This is feel­ing flighty. Inspired by the col­ors of the season

drawing-a-day 01172012

[artlog] 27 of 365

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 Read More …

drawing-a-day 01162012

[artlog] 16 of 365

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. Read More …

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[artlog] 15 of 365

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 Read More …

Helen Frankenthaler speaks.

  “I don’t resent being a female painter. I don’t exploit it. I paint.” — Helen Frankenthaler

drawing-a-day 01142012

[artlog] 14 of 365

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. Read More …

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[artlog] 13 of 365

Test­ing vari­a­tions on my new brushes. Pretty crazy some of these marks. Still lov­ing every minute of doing a draw­ing a day.    

drawing-a-day 01122012

drawing01122012

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 Read More …