Waterways Project: Submerged

Waterways Project: Submerged
oil stick and graphite
Image size 5" x 20"

This is an image that's related to our assignment in my drawing class this week. We learned how to mask of a very large sheet of paper (22" x 30") and protect the whole surface from any media contamination. It was lots of fun to unveil the drawing from under all that brown paper and masking tape. The drawing sits as a jewel in the middle of the page. I'm not showing the page surrounding the drawing here because I had to Photo Shop the image and I haven't figured out how to add in a border around the image.


Here is the un Photo Shopped view of the large drawing. I'm using this process and the 12 x 12 format to develope a series of Lake Michigan drawings.


The drawing is loosely based on both a piece of re embroidered lace and the idea of what's under the surface of the river. It's subtle colors and ensized lines are hardly visible on line. The small top part of the drawing has subtle white lines ensized into the surface. I really like how oil sticks behave and they have a nice advantage of completely dryig as opposed to oil pastels that never dry.