Today’s experiment is another palimpsest, although the underlying art was just a light pencil drawing. I was trying to draw my granddaughter and grandson. In previous studies, I creased the whole length and width of the paper. Today I didn’t crease the paper all the way across. I preserved the posture of brother and sister and used […]
The seventh position in my grid is directly to the left of grid #6, continuing to move in a clockwise direction on the original grid of 11 paintings. The design on this grid entry stands on its own, but is also part of the whole. However, if this grid entry was a jigsaw-puzzle part of the bigger grid, I venture […]
The sixth position in my grid is directly below grid #5, continuing to move in a clockwise direction on the original grid of 11 paintings. The design on this grid entry stands on its own, but the red curve is a continuation of the line begun in the previous sequential grid entry. [Note: I didn’t think that grid […]
I came across some unfinished drawings made by my granddaughter, in scouring my stash for paper. I began my folding process and used some watercolor crayons to mark the creases. I didn’t have much of an idea about how to treat the original sketch, so I filled in the boxes, made by the intersecting lines, […]
The fifth position in my grid is directly below grid #4, also moving in a clockwise direction on the original grid of 11 paintings. We have a somewhat different design in this module. It reminds me of a solar eruption. It is incomplete and unbalanced. This design doesn’t make a lot of sense unless paired with the next grid […]
I got the idea for the composition below from Paul Klee’s Quarry, 1945, in a round-about way. I had Klee in mind when I folded and scored the paper first, in columns, then in irregular rows. Then I thumbed through one of my books of Klee’s paintings and found Quarry. I couldn’t quite get the […]
I decided to try painting on a black surface. My friend Nina of methodtwomadness.wordpress.com gave me the idea with her wonderful light-on-dark sketches. I have had this pad of black paper for ages. Once in a while I try a sketch or two, but for the most part, this black pad has been lying dormant. […]
The fourth position in my grid is the next sequential painting in the clockwise direction on the original grid of 11 paintings. Red is beginning to show on the left; the skinny blue and red lines move toward the right edge, compared to the same color lines as the painting in grid position #3. This study […]
The study below is in position #3 of my crumpled-paper grid. We’re starting to round the corner and start onto the second row. Even though this piece is directly adjacent to the artwork in Grid Position No. 2, it has a different palette and a different feel. The charcoal lines mark the ridges of the rumpled paper, giving […]
I hate to throw away paper. With my recently-developed technique of folding, spindling and mutilating paper (a behavior I had to learn since this conduct was largely prohibited in the 1970s). I am trotting out my marred paper for this treatment. It is working out quite well. I painted the abstract below on previously-folded paper I […]
