More Seeds

I keep reminding myself to keep it simple; line and shape, that's all. And I keep forgetting. I am finding it very hard to do. I keep adding things, folds in the paper, some color, maybe lots of color. More black, more drama. More stuff.  They look very bare these seeds.

bare seeds

bare seeds get some color

bare seeds find another seed and get lots more color

Sowing Seeds

Well so much for the grid, it seems to be on the back burner while the seeds have demanded all my attention. Not sure that they don't looks more like eggs but it doesn't really matter. I couldn't wait to try this out, this being take Black Seeds [see previous post, link here] and see what happens when you try to extend the seeds, this is very rough and I can see that I will try to get rid of the strong diagonal, probably by changing the size of some of the seeds. I wondered where all the straight then wavy lines, that I had been working with for the last few months had gone; realized that the line had joined ends and become quasi circles. Filled with charcoal of course.

Lots of seeds

Wanting / Forcing

It has taken a few more days to realize what was happening in the studio. Maybe the best way to say it is a wanting / forcing for spring. We are still a white, cold and windy world here and I thought I would just create what I wanted in the studio. Using that forcing energy usually leads to lousy results in all areas of my life, not just the studio. I like the plain grid of tape, so will go back to that, but I really wanted some color, some growth, so drew some seed like shapes and called it Green Trying to Grow.

Green Trying to Grow

Then played some more.  Black seeds.

Black Seeds