A New Begining

Time lapse of 32 square feet of my studio wall becoming a very large drawing.

Yesterday I posted about Paul Klee and how preparing the canvas inspired his vision of What the Drawing Wants to Be. Today I’m putting his words into action and starting a new drawing. It’s eight feet wide and four feet tall and takes up an entire wall of my studio. It’s the first in a series of four drawings I plan to make focusing on our climate catastrophe while at the same time seeking joy in our connection to nature. Because I use a method of tiny hatch marks in my drawing, and this one is my largest yet, it will have over a million lines in it when I’m done.

The sequence of photos shows how I put up two rails to hold my 4’x8’ piece of Gatorfoam board, then mounted the board. Next I’ll apply the beautiful Japanese kinwashi paper that I wrote about in an earlier post. Then it will be time to draw. Drawing the first line is quite a ritual when you know you have over a million to go.