It's always an interesting experience when I make one of something. My mode of operation is to create a series of drawings and watch what happens in the repetition as I move from one drawing to the next. I do this to get deep into a space where I let the marks reveal themselves by the physical gesture that dominates at that time.
I have been waiting for the moment to try this Walnut Ink made by one of my artist buds at Artist & Craftsman Supply. Ink like this asks to be used in an intimate drawing. I thought I would try making a very small 19 line drawing.
These are the first 19 lines.
I love how the ink sits in the pen and is slowly absorbed by the Rives BFK.
I arrived at the studio very early this morning. Made a pot of coffee and solved a couple construction problems.
Then it was time to clean off all the surfaces so I could take out sheets of paper. It's been weeks since I've had time enough in the studio to really work on anything brand new. I decided to take a look at some drawings that I had started as early as a few weeks back. This would help me get past the what do I do feeling that I get when I'm not focused on a particular project or series of drawings. It's like getting reintroduced to some long lost friends.
I made some vintage buys the other day. One of them was a book of nibs manufactured in the forties. Also picked up a lettering pen. The lovely Walnut Ink was handmade by one of my pals at Artist & Craftsman. What an amazing gift.
Now I'm finding some used papers to make new drawings. One has to be a return gift for the walnut ink.
A couple older Rare Earth pieces in Amy Ralston's Studio this past weekend. Yep they are big and they are still available. — with Amy Ralston at Heron Studios 16th Annual Open House & Sale.
Taking these out of storage made me think about framing again. I think that if they were framed I could at least get them shown. I think they would be quite handsome. They are a couple of my largest drawings.
Contact me if you are interested.
I'm planning on making some big art.
Maybe directly painting or maybe wheatpaste. This is the space I'm looking to draw on. Testing some ideas in a SketchUp file.
What would a drawingaday look like this big? Or maybe I should make a whiteboard and draw something different every once in a while?
A new series of ink drawings. A new size for me. Very interested in the verticallity, how the lines optically push the paper out.
Just started working with them again in November.
Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective comprises 105 of LeWitt’s large-scale wall drawings, spanning the artist’s career from 1969 to 2007. These occupy nearly an acre of specially built interior walls that have been installed—per LeWitt’s own specifications—over three stories of a historic mill building situated at the heart of MASS MoCA’s campus.
You are invited to join me and the artists of Heron Studios for their Holiday Exhibition + Sale. I'll be joining the artists on the first floor showing small works in the studio of Amy Ralston.
SHOW DATES & TIMES
Opening Reception | Friday, November 15 : 6 - 9 pm
Saturday
11/16 : 11 - 5 pm
Sunday
11/17 : 11 - 5 pm
Saturday
11/23 : 11 - 5 pm
Sunday
11/24 : 11 - 5 pm
Heron Artists: Mary Gordon, Marian Kassab, Jane Porter, Lorri Primavera, Amy Ralston, Carol Rydel
The MADE IN PHILLY campaign takes over traditional advertising spaces to showcase the extraordinary but often untold quantity and quality of visual art being produced in Philadelphia...and connects each work displayed to the neighborhood (even block) where it was created.
