Two New Drawings

India ink on archival, toned, Crescent board. Two inch squares reassembled.

Horizontal Drawing

Does this drawing have a connection to the photographs in the previous post? New drawing using cereal boxes, painted on with India Ink, cut into 2 inch squares and reassembled. Note the change in background colors from the differing boxes.

Two Old Photographs

I've been digging through some old images and came across these two from 2007. They have connections to some of the drawing work I'm doing these days. So many of these public housing buildings are being destroyed every year, they may soon be a thing of the past.

Triptych

I was over ambitious while designing and making this triptych. The original idea came together quickly but the assembly took about two weeks. My work space is really too small for a piece of this size and at least twice I had to disassemble and store it away while entertaining. The gluing took longer than I expected and I even had my friend Kathy come by one day to assist.

I'm happy with the way the whole thing fell together. The varying types of marks work with each other and the overall affect is near to what I had hoped; an overlap of Japanese Screens and my panoramic photos from the Magic Hedge. It is large, each panel is 48 x 36 inches and I'm planning on framing them separately but present them as a piece.

I Have Been Hard At Work

Trying to work through the January blahs, it is a struggle some times. but I continue to cut apart old India Ink drawings and reassembling them. This is the newest one.

Black and White Magic Hedge Photos

These are two black and white panoramic photos made at the magic hedge this fall. The Magic Hedge is a bird sanctuary in Chicago near Montrose Harbor. I used a negative of the top image as my Holiday card this year.

New Drawings January 2010

I continue to work in a similar manner to the last drawing; that is cutting apart india ink drawings and reconstructing them. Initially they were looking very landscape like. I'm hoping to move toward a more abstract image, something that evokes mark making on a couple of different scales.