Filed under: Black Sketchbook, Cut & Paste, Experimentation | Tags: black, color, decopatch, fashion, ink, Kuwait, lbo jzazz, marker, pen, Sketchbook, strip
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Filed under: Black Sketchbook, Sketchbook | Tags: black, box, boxes, chair, folding, ink, Kuwait, paper, pen, sketch, Sketchbook, tracing paper
I love boxes, I love chairs, and I love women. Ok, that last bit didn’t sound quite right although it’s true. I DO love women. I love drawing and painting them, I love their wide array of emotions and complexities, and I love the fact that I am a woman. This is one of those drawings that incorporates all three of my favorite subjects with a medium I love: ink on tracing paper. I love tracing paper. I love the way it crinkles and has a mind of its own. If you were to spend a whole month with a box, chair, woman or tracing paper, which would it be? (more…)
Filed under: Black Sketchbook, Sketchbook | Tags: black, calligraphy, florence, ink, Kuwait, pen, sepia, Sketchbook, tracing paper
fun with a florentine quill
Filed under: Black Sketchbook, Experimentation, Sketchbook | Tags: black, crinkly, folding, ink, page, pen, Sketchbook, tracing paper
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Filed under: Black Sketchbook, Cut & Paste, Experimentation, Favorites | Tags: ASK, black, blocks, cut, desk, detention, hope, ink, paste, pen, politics, punishment, sketch, Sketchbook
the most important building in the world
These are three pages from my black sketchbook. I bought the sketchbook a few years ago because I liked the novelty of it, and I knew that I would have to somehow work around the problem of drawing on black pages. One of the ‘projects’ I gave myself was this one: I asked my friend Simon to cut me some snippets from the paper he had just finished reading (which was The Guardian Weekly). Then I gave myself the challenge of ‘ad libbing’ some sketches while incorporating into them the scraps he gave me. I think I did a pretty good job. I was pretty happy with the results anyway. (more…)
