Just trying to have a lighter hand in this drawing. Trying to float a bit. Not be caught up in making too many marks. And to change the color palette to something unexpected. It feels good and I was surprised how it looks off the iPhone.

Don't think. Draw.
Too much thinking.

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.

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.