Making a drawing a day is like running a gaunlet at times. If you put your head down and cover your head you'll make it through. That's what it felt like when I was making this drawing. Making open marks, making them fast. Running as quickly as I could.

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.

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.