I was working on my new sign for the studio. I designed the blade format for Steve our landlord. It gives each artist a place to do some decorative arts for their  space. The bottom part of the sign has my studio number and I get to do what ever I want to the top part on each side of the blade. I decided that many of my drawings don't read well from a distance but that this new one, a direct result of my drawing-a-day series would work well. I'm hoping that I can have another that will work well for the opposite side.

Scratch.

Really scratch.

After a spring trip north. The layers of pine needles and brown oak leaves seems to have taken over a place in my mind. I remember this feeling when I was standing near the doorway to the cabin facing toward the woods. The exploration of distant memory aways seems to find it's way into my work.

Scratchy sounds come to mind when I revisit this drawing. The wonderful out of focus circles behind a fence of orange wire, Almost caged in. I remember that I had passed a huge planting of day lilies the day I drew this. Everything informs what I draw.

Another adventure with color and overlapping marks.
Bright and energetic. Who knew.

One of my favorite pens. It makes amazingly wonderful lines. I love using transparent ink. These are a couple experiments inspired by my #drawingaday project. More and more the #drawingaday project is having impact on my studio work.  These are some of my lines in the studio last week. The glide of ink on the synthetic paper was fabulous and I'm looking to use ink for my 18 lines series. Memory landscapes.

Loving making blunt marks. They are like using a metal brush or a carpenters pencil. I'm looking at how these could be combined in some of the drawings I'm experimenting with now.

I have always made these marks with pastels and graphite. Now I'm looking to make them with ink. The thing is making a tool so that the marks don't deteriorate too much. I have always loved the deterioration in my other drawings but I'm trying some marks that can stay true in these new pieces.

Another drawing with a certain amount of unruliness.

I love to be drawing without a care for the outcome. Making marks everywhere and seeing what happens. In this drawing I just kept adding, layer after layer.

I sometimes wish I could draw like this all the time.

Drawing with abandon.