So there are rules....These are the ones for this rusty paper. The images emerge from the rust itself. I don't pre-plan them, but look at the paper, and see what kinds of folks are there. Sometimes I lightly sketch one out with pencil, but then when I come back to it later (a different day, even), it's someone else there, and I go with that. And then I use a dip pen, with the same nib, and black India ink. I so want to use some kind of black wash, but that's not in the boundaries.
So if these people look a bit skewed, know that that's the way they came out of the rust. All of them are "doodles", in that I just played around with the forms. No models here.
Wow these are beautiful...so inspiring!!!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome texture, wonderful figures! <3
ReplyDeleteIsn't wonderful how chaos can be turned into order - Do you know Frottage? Max Ernst used to start some of his work by rubbing pencil against paper on rough floor boards and then taking it from there - Now I have some beautiful water colour paper with inbuilt foxing, maybe I could use that!
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