Thanks Claude, I played a bit with isometric paper too. But realised that i want the structured lines of this with the texture of cartridge paper. The only stuff I can find is too smooth. I guess its manufacturers only imagine fine line drawing rather than splatty smeary affairs
JOY! stay well : ) R On 29/09/2012 13:26, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: > Hi Ruth, list, > > On 29/09/12 13:01, ruth catlow wrote: >> I enjoyed looking at these drawings. > Thank you! I enjoyed your drawings too, but failed to mention so in the > other thread as I was a tad overwhelmed with other things going on. > >> What is the surface? it looks silky and wibbley which contrasts >> interestingly with the structured geometry of the images. > The ones on the "book" image on the front page are drawn in HB pencil on > a thick textured card/paper book with a concertina binding (the other > side of the paper remains untouched, so I can draw another 23 pictures - > saving for rainy day inspirations). The book is a family heirloom (from > the father of a friend of my mother), not sure of its original origins, > he was an architect/designer/artist or something along those lines as > far as I know - hopefully i get to visit Berlin this autumn and visit > the family friends and learn more of my family history too. > > The other images are on a mixture of papers - the earlier ones were biro > and / or coloured pencil on paper towels (intended for drying hands, I > had no other paper freely available at that time), then I got some > regular A4 general purpose paper and a very good friend later provided a > variety of papers including 1mm graph paper, 5mm isometric paper, 43gsm > layout paper (which is thin enough to trace through but opaque), tracing > paper (which is glossy and translucent), and I also (when I was well > enough to leave the ward with an escort) got some 5mm squared paper too. > > And my scanner is slightly dodgy, and I didn't do anything beyond > resizing the images to (really tiny) for the website - eventually I'll > get bigger versions online but if you have any particular favourites > point them out and I'll upload bigger versions of those. Got another 40 > sheets of scrappy unfinished ideas and work in progress to scan next > time I'm really really bored :) > > Anyway, I now have a big (32l) box full of different papers and drawing > / painting stuff, so I have plenty of scope to create more - it's a > matter of time - not enough hours in the day - though maybe I should get > into a routine (s'been years since I had a proper one) and set aside an > hour a day solely for drawing / writing / painting / and other analogue art. > > > : ) > > R > > Thanks again, > > > Claude _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
