Wanting to make the fewest marks.
Like dragging a vine charcoal across a newsprint pad.

Turning my finger this way and that twirling.

Some playful repetition and transparency.

I really haven't made these marks in my works on paper. They are new in these experiments. I have been experimenting with these marks in a number of these iPhone drawings. Testing the feeling of the marks and techniques I would like to try to replicate in larger drawings with big drawing implements.

This one is very earthy feeling.

I may make some efforts in this direction in the studio soon.

Similar drawing.
Testing the same tools. Added a little pencil in this one and some ink spatter.

Fun. Totally exploratory.

I moved away from some of the more dense drawings to pay attention to a simpler conversation with the tension of positive and negative space.

Always moving back from more to less — less to more.

Playing with making tools for specific marks again. This one is a little aimless but it's really about letting the marks dance across the space. Rediscovering transparency too.

Space-like. Constellations, space dust.

Surprise.

This time I actually used a paint fill after I had drawn some pencil marks. That created some surprising white areas. I decided to keep them and make a couple additional graphite-like marks.

I'm thinking of exploring these more in the iPhone drawings but at the same time I'm looking for ways I could create these kind of artifacts in my analog drawings.

It's also good to just leave the drawing alone.

Another horizontal effort.

I try to get back in that direction now and again during these experiments. Really wanted to scribble again in this drawing. I really like how it almost feels like I'm working with graphite. Sort of smudgy.

I like to draw this sort of coil form. I could draw them over and over until I tear a hole in the paper.

A little yellow jelly beanie.

Another adventure in scribbles.

Sometimes a girl has got to scribble.

Order, I don't need no stinking sense of order.

Green?

So what's that about?
It just showed up in this drawing. Maybe there was spring in the air. Must have been. I like the energy of this one. Little bits of transparency too.