InkTracks

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

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

cat post

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When the subject is mundane , an orange/red color flow brightens it right up. I'm all about making the subject colorful. On Hand Book Ar...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

hiking around the pond

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This piece was transformed (in my mind anyway) from a random color experiment to a landscape-like scene with the mere addition of a humanoid...
Monday, April 28, 2008

idle hand

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But the right one is busy. This time with Noodler's ink added to a half-filled waterbrush. I'm pleased at how the medium flowed and ...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

why we're the Granite State

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We have chunks of granite *everywhere*--rising through the ground continually, always needing to be piled up somewhere for storage. This is ...
Saturday, April 26, 2008

lazy, floating flower

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I'm trying out Winsor & Newton oil bars, sticks of oil paint. I've never worked with oils before--setting up, then cleaning the ...
Friday, April 25, 2008

coming forward

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Listening to the League of Women Voters discuss their choices in Pennsylvania, I started doodling with charcoal and these women emerged on t...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

fire and bubbles

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More inking with comb and bottle cap. There may be a phoenix in that fire shape. Noodler's ink on Strathmore drawing paper.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

brightening the scene

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Another piece from my dipped bottle cap and comb, then I decided it needed color. This is a soluble Noodler's, so I was careful to not l...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

caps and comb teeth

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I dipped a big bottle cap and a coarse-toothed comb in Noodler's Nile Ebony ink. After that, I lost control. The solid black circles are...
Monday, April 21, 2008

imagining cliffs

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Cliffs are an underlying theme in the news--as in, we seem to be falling off--or--the problems facing us. Or are these just the 4 am worries...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

sandal weather

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Two weeks ago I was using the woodstove to keep warm; yesterday it was warm enough to wear shorts and sandals, and draw one. I guided a frie...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

bell and drum

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This is a stretched paper drum made of linen rag. You'd never guess it's not a skin; the drum has a great sound. It's painted, m...
Friday, April 18, 2008

looking up

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Drawing in bed, looking up at the shelf beside me. Black w/c pencil and water on Cachet paper.
Thursday, April 17, 2008

mapping the imagination

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Now I see a river, islands, sand banks, and small circuits of grass. This abstract map emerged on the page while I was listening to NPR'...
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Nita Van Zandt
Living in New Hampshire, loving where line and color take me.
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