Picked these up today. Ordered them at my fav Artists and Craftsman right around the corner from where I live. Lucky me right?

I have taken the plunge back into some printmaking.

My artgirl @brushheart and I had a studio day together; an adventure in lino printing. I decided after making some very skeletal sketches that I would just cut what I felt that day and print it. I had to use this amazing yellow.

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.

Starting a new triptych of ink drawings.
Finished one whole panel. This is the beginning. It is very meditative. More as it progresses. Each line requires that I refill the pen.

Several of my drawings on the studio wall.
These are the first of my drawings that have been directly been influenced by my #drawingaday project. I began drawing this series using transparent inks and large pens including bamboo pens.

I've started on a second drawing in this series. I was surprised by the ease with which I was able to draw the marks this time. Maybe it had something to do with the humidity. Maybe it was me.

I did the drawing taped to a cardboard surface. Love the result of the drawing transparency on the cardboard surface. It made me think about the presentation of the drawing in a way that is different from any way than I had originally imagined. The thing about the Yupo Synthetic paper is that it can come into contact with a surface like cardboard and it wouldn't damage the drawing.

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.