The studio is popping this week as I found some old sketches from about 3 years ago - pre-pandemic. I found myself taking my awesome teenage children to Taekwondo 3s a week. Well, I was consistently the parent with his head in his sketchbook. The 9 x 12 sketches were compositions of ink-drawn shapes, symbols, letterforms, and abstract bubble-like forms. I think I remember at the time that I was attempting to make these drawings as I make paintings - the layering of elements. I made many of these using Rocket book: find it here as it was very convenient, and I was experimenting with cataloging sketches in my google drive. I ended up with 20-30 rectangular, vertical compositions. That was several years ago...
As it happens often in the studio, I stumble across something from the past that triggers a blast of inspiration. This is what happened, and I began transferring these small drawings on to 18 x 24, 140lb cold press watercolor paper. I always wondered what they would look like large. I had tried in the past to simply print them out large (13 x 19) but something was missing. I had the realization that maybe I should hand-reproduce them using the original images, transparencies, an overhead projector, and my favorite Molotow Blackliner pen. So, here's the first video explaining it all:
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