drawings in progress
July 23, 2010
Measuring marks, counting lines.
Posted by jodi on July 23, 2010 at 12.52pm
new drawings in progress
June 8, 2010
Posted by jodi on June 8, 2010 at 3.49pm
woodblock
June 7, 2010
Posted by jodi on June 7, 2010 at 5.04pm
drawing
May 4, 2010
Paper, some printed, some already drawn on and some new, stretched on boards for new drawings. I’m hoping to have some time to work on a few of them tomorrow afternoon.
A drawing that represents four and a half hours of city council meeting. The meeting was even longer, but we left after the vote we were there for was over (at 10:30pm!). Next time I have to go to city council I'm bringing supper with me. Posted by jodi on May 4, 2010 at 9.11pm March 10, 2010 For a woodcut. Posted by jodi on March 10, 2010 at 7.05pm March 3, 2010 Posted by jodi on March 3, 2010 at 7.34pm February 27, 2010 Today’s video was supposed to be cutting a woodblock, but the wood gouges were forgotten at the Monastery. So instead, more drawing. I’m trying out a new method for counting lines: instead of counting in my head how many lines are drawn in each section and adding up all of those numbers, I’m making a tally of every group of five lines. This way maybe I can watch cartoons on the laptop while I draw, or talk with Peter on Skype (will try it out tonight and see if the drawing and the conversation interfere with one another). Five is a number I can feel with my hand instead of keeping it in my head. I think. Yes, I am listening to Ozzy Osbourne while I work. I realized while drawing today that I added Ozzy’s “Bark at the Moon” to my blip.fm playlist more than once; not sure what that reveals about me but there you have it (full disclosure: I have the LP too). A song, of course, is only as good as its bridge, and as you can hear in the video. . . well. Other cheesy songs I’m embarrassed to admit I like but which can probably be found more than once on my blip.fm playlist include Peter Murphy’s “Cuts you up” and Murray Head’s “One Night in Bangkok”. Don’t judge. Posted by jodi on February 27, 2010 at 6.53pm February 22, 2010 A terrible photo, but you get the idea; a few of the drawings from last week. These will all have layers of woodblock printing on top of them. Of course. They’re not meant to go together but I kind of like them stacked like this now that I see them together. Posted by jodi on February 22, 2010 at 9.57pm February 16, 2010 Drawing: concentric circles The drawing goal for this week is to get a first layer of ballpoint pen drawing down on 22 half-sheets of Rives BFK brought home for the purpose (half sheets because they need to fit in a suitcase to be taken back up North where they’ll be finished). I wanted to add some colour to them but the watercolour paints were left behind in North Bay, so that gratification will be delayed. Of course these will all eventually have woodblock prints on top of them as well. Because horror vacui is my middle name, y’all. The week’s other big task: cleaning up the Chandler & Price guillotine trimmer with a wire brush to prep it for painting. The base needs to be painted before the top can be bolted back on, and the whole thing needs to be reassembled before we can get down to the very important business of Chopping Books. Once this puppy is back on its feet I may make a summer project of chopping up whatever books are on hand, just for fun. Posted by jodi on February 16, 2010 at 1.31pm February 14, 2010 I never would have thought there were so many had I not counted them all myself. Posted by jodi on February 14, 2010 at 4.42pm
cutout
studio video march 3
studio video!
in progress
studio video february 16 2010
Listening to: Dresden Dolls No, Virginia. . .
I love the way the scraping sound comes through on the video when I wipe the gloppy ink buildup off the pen into the notebook. The post-it note stuck on the drawing is for counting and keeping track of how many lines are drawn. In the background you can see my handy if not very pretty circular knitting needle storage system: gathered by their cables in a hair elastic, hung on the drapery cleat in the window trim.
ten thousand tiny lines
