Monday, June 29, 2009

Drawing with Edna

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2ply rag Bristol

Edna Casman and I got together to draw at her studio the last two weeks.  We felt the sessions were very productive.  The first five drawings are from June 18, and second five are from June 25.  Is more color showing itself? 

I remind the rare reader once again, there is no premeditation here.  We alternate first moves.  For example, in the last drawing, Edna led with a pink sigmoid curve over the left side.  I added some black marks, and I followed up with an erasure through the marks to keep the line of pink motion.  Edna replied with some blue tadpoles at the top left corner.  This left an open field on the right.  Into that field I marched some lines of varying length making for Edna’s tadpoles trapped or hidden by the red sigmoid ridge.  Seeing my advancing lines, Edna reinforced the tadpoles, giving their heads a color, which revealed their allegiance to the left side, but more toward blue.  In a brilliant flanking move, Edna then added reinforcements to the tadpoles in the lower left.  I had no choice.  To hold my position in front of the reinforced red ridge, I added some circles in front of my marching lines to take the brunt of her return fire.  She supplemented the lower left with menacing, small sharp shapes turning her red ridge into a waiting serpent.  I countered by camouflaging my circles with blue and head faking with some empty blue circles.  Then we signed it.  It was all over in about eight minutes.

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