Transparency and strange forms.

This drawing confuses me.

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.

http://youtu.be/71hNl_skTZQ

In this drawing I only used a few marks. I ecied it was time for a few big important marks.