This week in the studio I worked on a three panel drawing I've been working on for a few weeks. This is in a new series that I have been making sketches for awhile. In an effort to test the limits of creating larger drawings by making a group of panels that are joined together. This first group of three panels create a very atmospheric space. I'm imagining more.
The entire drawing is made with colored ink and a single bamboo pen.
This just happened. I imagined the dots first.
I’ve come back to the familiar figure 8.
I like drawing that form. I like it even better when the form starts to take control of the drawing.
This is a lovely little bundle of marks. It feels like the stuff you pull out of your pocket.
Still experimenting with fewer of everything. I only used three different tools in this drawing.
Loving creating different forms by bending or repeating a mark.
I find these drawings relaxing and satisfying.
Only two marks and three colors.
What happens?
Still only a few marks again.
Quick thinking. Quick mark-making.
These are experimenting in a new direction. Clear layering, only a few tools and few colors.
Another drawing of large strong shapes.
Trying to keep it simple.
Sometimes when I draw there is nothing but the sound of my heart and the drawing medium on the surface. Other times in my head it sounds more like this.
In this drawing I only used a few marks. I ecied it was time for a few big important marks.
I pushed this drawing to have additional values. It’s not restful like I had hoped.
But I love this blue and the fabric feeling is imortant in this as well as many of my drawings.
Thread is a theme and an important gathering of marks.
