I spent the last 10 days or so working on this new drawing, which was inspired by the yellow cedar carving I’d been working on, with its alternating tool marks. Above is a much-magnified look at a drawing that is about 15 inches square.
Above is a pretty terrible photo of the whole drawing. I think I can get a better photo once it’s framed under glass.
One funny thing that happened when I was working on the vertical areas: I used the horizontal sliding bar on the drafting table (bottom of second image) as a reference on the horizontal lines, and a the vertical side of a 45-degree aluminum square rested on it for the vertical lines. After hundreds, maybe thousands of vertical lines, the aluminum square literally cut the pen tip on the left, causing the tip to eventually bend over. Thankfully, it fell apart gracefully and I replaced the pen before it caused a drawing accident. Entropy at work, I guess.
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August 15th, 2006 at 12:41 pmVisit Aunt Beep
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Gabe Says:
August 16th, 2006 at 5:35 pmVisit Gabe
A leaky pen is not fun! It looks like that one is pretty close to breaking off.
The drawing is very optical. If you stare at it long enough it starts playing with your sight.
I like it!