Most recent journal drawings...

And now we end this mid May 2008 studio visit with some more journal drawings.

My Current Journal...

This is the cover of the one I carry around now, begun recently.

Journal Drawings

I think of journal drawings as a place to let myself wander around and see where I am led by the process and the materials. Recent materials used in my journals are: pencil, pens in metallic and bright colors, ballpoint pen, collage, especially writing wripped from various sources, ordinary office supplies like post its, memos, white out and most exciting-- staples!

This first image is from my last journal, drawing started on April 8. Then I added elements and finished it on April 23...

Inner Landscape: First Painting with Drawing

This painting/collage is a work in progress, still unfinished. I started it with the intention of making a self-portrait as I do every year on my birthday and tried to put my baby in the picture as well. When I decided it was not working, I did my birthday self-portrait on a smaller canvas and reworked this canvas to be another collage inner landscape. I left it for at least a month and then, after working on many of the new drawings shown here where I was using the stapler and putting together two or three drawings and then turning them into one, one day, I think it was April 21, I had a very special moment, one of those exciting moments during a series that I remember as a turning point. I suddenly had the impulse to take one of the new layered drawings and staple it onto the canvas that I still had not finished. I got very excited about this new development and then my big stapler stopped working, so I left it to continue later. I have not yet worked more on this peice but I see it as yet another layering in the evolution of this Inner Landscape series. I will write about my observations about the latest evolutions in the next post...
Size of canvas: 12 inches by 36 inches

Inner Landscape, fifth drawing

Size: 8 3/4 by 22 inches

Inner Landscape, fourth drawing

The first image is a detail of the drawing, and the second image is the full drawing, made up of two pieces of paper. They started as two separate drawings and were later put together to make one drawing...

Size: 8 3/4 inches by 22 inches

Inner Landscape Series, Third Drawing

Inner Landscape Series, Second Drawing

New Work: Inner Landscape Series, First drawing

These are the most recent images of my "Inner Landscape Series" which have developped and changed over the past months. These images are of one drawing, top and then three images of details from the drawing. Mixed media, ink and paint, pencil and pastel, staples and collage on paper. Size: about 8.5 inches high by 22 inches wide.