plans

A new erasing...

This space is becoming for me a room to educate myself in. In grad school, art as a whole and drawing in particular seemed difficult to look in the eye. My mind is lighter now, the route to the studio a little more straight forward (also I probably needed some sort of incubation time... to let inconsistencies, anxieties, and types of love stew together). This blog is helping: looking at other artist works, drawing a little something everyday. It is more than likely that what I draw is influenced by what I look at. To borrow a bit of an admired artist's language/mark is essential, I think, as a learning tool: it improves ones understanding of the mark, and one can delve deeper into process.

I bought a giant roll of drawing paper over the weekend. I am planning on doing one Sol Lewitt style, intricate geometry like drawing (should do it on the wall but my walls are rented!)... and planning to create one giant sketchbook of mark making on the other... I wonder what the paper will be like (I can't read these dutch product labels... should carry around a dictionary... i asked the shopkeeper whether the paper was cold or hot pressed (it was smooth so i though hot press)... he said it was no press... perhaps he mistook that I was asking whether the paper would be suitable for printing etchings or something. or maybe there are some papers that are really not pressed!? hmmm...)