It was a long day in the studio. I spent a considerable amount of time experimenting with new materials for a series of works on paper. I have been cutting pages of text from a number of exceptional design magazines to use in these works. The quality of these magazines means there is a great deal of care that had been taken in setting the type. That kind of care creates a color and rhythm over paragraphs.

I used one such page to create these test sketches.

For my last series of drawings I constructed an acetate mask to make the background color fields on which I would place my marks. This was successful and I like that way of creating color fields. But I want to make a different single stroke mark. I could use a brush to do that but it would use too much pigment for the surface I want.

Part three of my studio saga.

Finally after calling stew — she saved me — I had my keys and got into my studio.

I then had a full afternoon of drawing.

This is one of a new series of drawings called soundings.

The individual drawings do not have names yet — I'm still spending time with them discovering their true identity. They are on luscious Rives BFK White 22 x 30. The blue field is 6.5 x 14 matte. I've used different grades of graphite for the grids and the dots are white drafting ink. I'll be showing several in April, details to come.