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Drawing and painting, to create a mindful path through my days.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

On a background of tiny type

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I started with a stamped background in a Moleskine sketchbook, then added a scene around a drawing of my left hand. Breaking the surface wit...
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A bow that grew

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In a Moleskine with the thin blank paper, I idly doodled a bow and did something like a visual cluster technique of drawing something bow-at...
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Monday, September 26, 2005

random media

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I've drawn and painted lots of pages since I last posted, but had to finally stop to upload something. This is pencil on "scrapbook...
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

EDM #33, eyes

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Remember how scary it was to first see that huge eye of your friend looking at you through a telescope? The squinted eye has problems, but f...
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Sunday, September 18, 2005

Leftover paint

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What do you do with the last bit of paint from a painting session? Trying a new triad of Sennelier quinacridone gold and quin red, plus W/N ...
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Saturday, September 17, 2005

Faster loading, space-saving files

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Welcome to the new faster-loading InkTracks! I'm redoing the whole blog with rescaled images, much smaller than before. I'm learning...
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Fantasy flowers

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Playing with w/c pencils on little squares of 90# paper. Here's one where the table is apparently going down with the Titanic.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005

EDM #32, metal

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I was delaying this challenge until I had time to do my shiny multi-part Saladmaster grating machine, then I saw the pencil sharpener and cl...
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Monday, September 12, 2005

Personalizing new Moleskines

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Plain black covers beg to be decorated (I hear these tiny voices pleading). So I sponged an abstract on w/c paper and cut it up to glue on t...
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Friday, September 09, 2005

Color Blocks

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Just playing, trying out mixes of three primaries. W/c on 140# paper. And this image has been rescaled so it's a 36kb jpeg file. Quite a...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

A Line to Remember

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I found this quote by Beth Johnson and loved it so much, especially in view of our nation trying to cope with the Katrina disaster. May we a...
Thursday, September 01, 2005

Gouache bottle

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More experimenting with gouache and mixing from a 3-color triad. Attempting glass here, I can really see the opaqueness of the medium instea...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Gouache cat practice

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I've read that artists use gouache differently from w/c, but I used glazing and washes a bit here and the paint seemed pretty similar. M...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Mixing colors

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I've been reading w/c books about mixing 3 primary hues to create a palette. My first two attempts weren't so good, then I discovere...
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Nita Van Zandt
Living in New Hampshire, loving where line and color take me.
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