Now Recycling Drawings – Ink from Charcoal

Here is an ink and watercolor drawing done from a 1 minute charcoal drawing of Rose.

Ink and watercolor sketch from a 1 minute gesture drawing

Recycling the Past

As is often the case elements of the past come back in a new way, here is a CD, and the new use for it, as an intaglio plate. Just a quick sketch out of my imagination.

Drypoint on CD

Self Portrait – in Blue

Drypoint and water color, 10×18 cm

Full body, good poses in self portraits are rather difficult, but a bit of contortion and mirrors help.

More Colored Drypoint

Mei Li – Hand colored drypoint, 12×10 cm

This was done using an aluminum plate instead of the PETG I have been using. Its a lot different to work with I think I like having the design visible through the plate as you get with plastic, but with metal , mistakes are easier to fix, and the plate is more durable. I also like adding color by hand, it adds a layer of complexity to the image and its meaning.

Hand Colored – a la Mary Cassatt

Here’s Rose and Ika, hand-colored drypoint. Mary Cassatt exhibited a number of prints in 1891 inspired the Japanese print show in Paris the previous year

Drypoint and water color, 16.5 X 14.5 cm on Rives BFK

Back to Sculpture

Here is a small figure in papier-mâché and epoxy resin. The écorché look is a departure from other figures, while still abstracting the figure it gives a certain implication of reality.

Seated figure, 2014
30 cm X 30 cm

View from the Model’s Perspective

Here is a rather clumsy animation of a drypoint that I did based on what I was seeing while modeling. The heads of the artist’s bobbing up and down as they look at their drawing then me made a very interesting twinkling effect
Here is the print in its ‘pure’ form