Drawing with Edna
Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol
Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol
Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol
Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol
Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol
Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol
Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol
Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol
Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol
Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal pencil and pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol
EDNA Casman and I did the ten drawings above over our last three sessions, September 3, 8 and 15. The first three represent more efforts to have the focus of the drawing toward a side edge. The first two have a composition that amounts to a triangle pointing into the picture. This gives the feeling that the empty space is about to be occupied. The third is a little different. Here the figure appears to be walking into or being pushed into the empty space. The last drawing is an interesting attempt to salvage an unsatisfactory drawing by mostly covering it up. The lower right triangle and the oval were part to the original drawing. Here, we conducted the search for the drawing by erasing it with color, very low chroma colors, but color still. By controlling the amount of color pastel in the coloring-out layer or erasing into the coloring-out layer, or fixing some of the underlying passages, we arrived at this solution. In nearly all our previous drawings, except for the silver drawings, we have been content to leave the white of the paper as background. In this drawing the uncovered paper could be read as foreground to the action in the drawing. The uncovered paper could also be background to the drawing, which descends from above like a curtain, although we left the upper right uncovered to make that interpretation less certain. We are very fond of uncertain interpretations.
