So I've been drawing lately. Just some little 3.5 x 5.5 inch pencil drawings. I like that size. It's very portable.
As I draw I find that I think about the drawing: what do these silly little lines mean. A few elements keep coming up. lines that could be cracks. or edges. or both. semi circles. tiny circles that seem to have wedged themselves into spaces between lines. These last elements seem to be irritants - like those that create pearls in oysters. Or like a pebble caught in a whirlpool that grates against a softer rock, making a groove.
I have some paper stock about this size salvaged from the Design School trenches. It seemed expensive, thick and rich feeling. Maybe it was used for matting. I was cutting it into littler cards to carry in my pocket for notes but the fibers are almost too coarse for an ink pen. Perhaps you know an artist who could reuse what I could not bear to recycle.
ReplyDeleteI would love the paper. If the texture is too coarse for drawing, I can quite possibly use it to cover plywood for painting.
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