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| Black quilt, 2013 |
Friday, February 1, 2013
Somerset Paper
Had to use some of my Somerset paper as I had run out of my Japanese paper. This paper gives more intense blacks but I am missing the ephemeral feeling I get with the Japanese paper. The Somerset is a tough paper, ready to put up with any amount of rubbing and smudging and laying down tape and tearing up tape I can throw at it. And I used a lot of tape on this drawing. Almost a whole roll. The drawing kept escaping me. I'd get a glimpse, then loose it. See it again, loose it. Quite a dance. I think it works better when it leads and I follow, but some days I just need to lead.
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Nice work, Liz. This paper lends a soft warmth.
ReplyDeleteThanks Connie, I love working on paper and I keep forgetting what a good one this is.
DeleteWhat an extraordinary sense of depth - layers within layers within layers - and yet also of entrapment - quite chilling ......
ReplyDeleteThanks Charlton Stitcher, there are a lot of layers in this one and I am fascinated by your use of entrapment, gives me another way to look at the work.
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