These two sparrow drawings I did during a boring phone call with my favorite pen (Uniball Vision elite) on scraps of paper I’d brought to work. After I got them home, I inked them in the rest of the way. The top one is Tim Holz’s textured printed kraft paper, and the bottom is from …
Category: drawing
May 11
Rainbow Script Postcard
This is one of the few resist paper postcards where I feel like I made the best possible use of the resist. It’s painted on ink and paint over the white Tim Holz resist cardstock. Because some of it is paint and some of it is ink, I got to play with interesting juxtapositions of …
May 06
Poppies on Map
Drawing on maps was the thing that started me on this drawing phase. I’d seen some songbirds drawn with semi-translucent ink on maps as part of an illustration on a wall hanging at Ikea. So I started drawing birds on maps, then other things on other surfaces. Here’s a map, or, more accurately, not a …
Apr 29
Fox in the Grass
I love foxes, and I wanted to have a picture that took up more of the paper, because the whole point of drawing on this sort of paper is to have the resist image show through, so I drew this fox. I’m not sure what it was standing on in the reference photo, but I …