POSTED ON Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 20:49
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.
POSTED ON Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 16:20
There's something silly about this drawing. I'm enjoying the thick inky lines. Like paint markers.
POSTED ON Friday, May 11, 2012 - 03:57
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.
POSTED ON Friday, May 11, 2012 - 03:30
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.
POSTED ON Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 01:07
Pretending I have transparent paint markers.
The color glides across the surface.
POSTED ON Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 18:49
Starting a new series called 18 lines.
Each of these drawings will only have 18 lines. I began a test on a synthetic paper with graphite yesterday. The quality of the lines are what I was looking for, but the visual experience from a distance is not.
These are repetitive, meditative pieces a response to the sounding series.
POSTED ON Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 08:00
For my last series of drawings I constructed an acetate mask to make the background color fields on which I would place my marks. This was successful and I like that way of creating color fields. But I want to make a different single stroke mark. I could use a brush to do that but it would use too much pigment for the surface I want.
POSTED ON Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 02:53
The studio is cleaned up and I'm back to work experimenting with two new series of drawings. This pic is after my coffee was brewed and I was taking a break after working for about 4 1/2 hours. I'm not exactly sure how I even took this weird little selfy.
POSTED ON Friday, May 4, 2012 - 10:27
Lightness.
Dancing, floating, weightlessness.
A good start.
POSTED ON Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 10:22
It's a caterpillar!