— stella untalan : artlog

A lit­tle yel­low jelly beanie.

Another adven­ture in scribbles.

Some­times a girl has got to scribble.

Order, I don’t need no stink­ing sense of order.

Green?

So what’s that about?
It just showed up in this draw­ing. Maybe there was spring in the air. Must have been. I like the energy of this one. Lit­tle bits of trans­parency too.

I have no idea what this one is about.

It just hap­pened. I don’t think I had any­thing to do with it. It’s like struggling.

Spi­rals.

This draw­ing is ruled by loops. Every­thing like a mol­e­c­u­lar model gone mad.

Test­ing a vocab­u­lary I know very well. The marks can’t be as tight as I would make them in a pen­cil draw­ing. The marks are more lyri­cal. I like them. I might exper­i­ment with these again.

Crazy lines in this one. I don’t usu­ally make marks like this at all.

It was fun to make some marks that felt like I was using a really sat­u­rated Sharpie. This was so quick and so much fun. The other marks were from a set I cre­ated and have enjoyed using so far through the series.

Day twenty-four. Another hor­i­zon­tal sur­prise.
I’ve been a bit late in post­ing what I’ve been doing in this project so I’m look­ing at the draw­ings with new eyes. I was sur­prised when I uploaded this one. The obscur­ing of marks and then revis­it­ing lev­els of transparency.

I want to look at some of these tech­niques in my non dig­i­tal works. I’m not sure that I can repro­duce them but it is inter­est­ing to think about tools and meth­ods — think­ing about try­ing some after I com­plete a series of draw­ings that I’ve got on the worktable.

I’m inter­ested in this color palette too. Don’t have a clue where the under­ly­ing color came from.

23 of 365

Can’t believe I’ve already made more than thirty draw­ings or that I’ve only made so few. I con­tinue to explore mark mak­ing and shapes and scribbles.

I’m already into month two and I have many oth­ers to post.

I’ve found some new marks I want to make in my ana­log draw­ings. Look­ing for­ward to mov­ing things I’ve dis­cov­ered in this project to my studio.

So, I’m think­ing at the end of the year I’ll have a party at my stu­dio or some­where and sell all of these draw­ings I’ve been work­ing on. They are dig­i­tal so they’ll be made as inkjet prints. That will keep the price low. I’ll use stan­dard frame sizes.

I’m think­ing about whether I will only print one; mak­ing it an orig­i­nal or just make unlim­ited prints by request.

I’m also think­ing about mak­ing a book of some sorts. Every­thing at the end is in flux. I’m just con­cerned about mak­ing the drawings.

Another in an attempt to make some hor­i­zon­tal draw­ings. This is a sim­ple sketch. Try­ing not to think. Just mak­ing marks. Made a cou­ple new tools and was sur­prised to like it even though it’s short on com­po­si­tion its got rhythm.

The inter­face isn’t designed to make landscape/horizontal draw­ings. Some­thing sorta crazy hap­pens when I try draw lan­scape images. I will per­sist but the tools are all pointed the other way and it makes switch­ing to make dif­fer­ent marks difficult.

You would think they could use the accelerom­e­ter to switch directions

This is the first effort that I’ve really made.

It’s fun but I need to get use to oper­at­ing in this direction.