Back to Charcoal

I meant to clean up the studio the other day, [always a good thing to do when I can't see my way], find a place for the pile of large drawings, clean off at least 2 work tables, ect, ect., but I got lead astray when I found some coloured mylar paper and wondered how charcoal would work on it. It's great as the tape doesn't stick or tear. And it's harder to get an even tone to the charcoal and it smudges easily which I am enjoying, leaving traces of where my hand and elbow have been. 

Unfinished drawing, still with tape on it.

 Looking at the drawing on the computer I started to play with the shapes

1st turn

And play some more.

4th A turn 

And ended up here.

4 square

An exhilarating few days and then it was time to weed.

Endless Possibilities

I may say I am wanting to create work that is spare but I watch what happens in the studio and I have to laugh. Picnic Table is where I ended up yesterday afternoon after tossing all the mornings work into the garbage.

Picnic table, 24 x 39 in, charcoal, 2013

Looking at the image on the computer I saw more possibilities. By layering the image the table had become a bridge.

bridge, 2013

That suggested more possibilities. And so it became Girders.  An endless playtime.

Girders, 2013