It's More Like a Drawing a Week

Instead of putting up each and every little scribble, I decided to hold off and post only once a week for this drawing. I worked on it every day at lunch last week, except for Friday, when I went for a walk instead.

It was a beautiful day, and I walked over to a pond where Canada Geese were hanging out. I've been able to get close to some flocks, but not this one. They weren't interested at all in the peanut butter crackers I had bought from the downstairs vending machine just for them. They must have heard about the salmonella scare...

I walked over to another half-frozen pond and saw a coyote carcass sticking up out of the ice. It had been eaten on, and its ribs were visible. It's a wild life out here.

Drawing Number Four

I have added just a wee bit more. I only worked on this for 30 minutes yesterday. The day was so beautiful here, I decided to take a walk. Today we have similar weather; almost 70 degrees, warm sun, blue skies. Time for another short walk, then back to drawing! My brother said he saw a 'baby chicken' to the left of the large flower in the bottom center; my mother-in-law sees a yellow flower in the top right; my sister sees roses climbing up a brick wall. Keep those visions coming....

Drawing Number Two

I'm going to try an experiment.

A few blog posts ago, I introduced the first drawing of a new series of Colorado wildflowers. It was this one:

Wildflowers, 2008
Mixed media on Arches

I thought I would show you the process with the second one in the series. I started the drawing above on an 8 1/2 x 11 inch portion of an old monoprint that I had made as a grad student back in 2001. One rule of the grad studio is to save all your work, especially the unsuccessful stuff, which is what that print was. I think it was made from ink still on the plate after one run through the press - an afterimage. Second rule of the studio is to use up all leftover ink - it's costly. The afterimage was not saturated enough to work by itself, but I saved it for a rainy day.

That would be today. It's sunny and warm outside, but no matter.

The second drawing will begin on another portion of that same monoprint, namely this:



As you can see, the print already has a fairly floral nature. What I will do next is to "find" the flowers in the print. I may give it a landscape orientation in order to do that. Something like this:



Click on either of the images to bring up a larger view. Do you see any flowers in the print? Where? Let me know, and I'll see if I agree with you. In any case, the next time you see this, it will have some new marks on it. Maybe some of them will be yours!

Ta 'till then!