InkTracks

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

Monday, January 30, 2006

Not to scale

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Quick gel pen on a pre-painted page of my current writing journal. This paper is slick and lined, but hey, it was close. I sit amid piles of...
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Sunday, January 29, 2006

Potential in fabrics and yarns

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When I was growing up, a dressform was always around for my mother's sewing. Now my daughter has one. The watercolors here remind me of ...
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Friday, January 27, 2006

The winder

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It's hard to put down the needles when the fever is upon me. However, here's a new tool in my fiber kit, a yarn winder that makes ba...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Abstract #82

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I like to find things in abstracts, even when they're my own unplanned images. This one reminds me of a house by a lake. And are those v...
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Monday, January 23, 2006

Peering through the jungle

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The jungle drapes and crowds, but beyond the tangle is a clear sky. That's the feeling this gives me now, not planned as I was painting....
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Sunday, January 22, 2006

Fuzzy yarn

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I've been knitting. Pencil on drawing paper. It's floating, but I'm letting it be. Back to the needles.
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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Mini paintkits

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I've made several of these: one is Daniel Smith w/c squeezed into an eyeshadow box and the other is W/N half-pans put into a small Altoi...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

What emerged during the conversation

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I always doodle when I'm on a phone call. I don't plan, I just make lines. The one from this morning had more shape than most, and t...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Standing at an easel

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This doesn't look different from my usual, but I drew the first pencil contours standing at an easel using full-arm movement. I learned...
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Sunday, January 15, 2006

The only color outside

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Laurie, in 79 degree Tucson, said she wanted to see a drawing of the snow I mentioned. This quick sketch is on creamy Moleskine sketchpaper,...
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A painting a day

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keeps drudgery away. Lovin' the Stonehenge paper with w/c.
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Saturday, January 14, 2006

Swirls and Blends

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I started sketching some objects, didn't like how they looked, so painted over it all just playing with water flow and color blends. Van...
Friday, January 13, 2006

Dusty cat

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Dusty because I didn't use water on the pastels. I'm liking them better because I can do quick sketches and get intense colors. And...
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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Pepper grinder #2 on Stonehenge

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I did this one from the bottom angle to make a very simple shape a bit more interesting. Adding water to the orange and black pastels on the...
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Nita Van Zandt
Living in New Hampshire, loving where line and color take me.
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