Latest Erasures (December 4, 2013)
These two are the last erasures that I did while quaffing a few beers over the Thanksgiving holiday. I find it interesting to compare these to the very first ones I created.
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The Very First Erasures (November 27, 2013)
I happened to open up my previous sketchbook and found the very first erasures that I did in there. You can see that they were much more representational and the later ones are much more abstract.
The first one looks like a fish and the other one is based on what we used to do as kids – which we called ‘skitching’. Skitching was only done in winter on a snowy or ice covered road. You would hold onto the back bumper of a car – while your friend would drive and you would skate along the road on your shoes and then let go when you had enough or (heaven forbid) you ran into a dry spot on the road.
More Erasures (October 22, 2013)
Attached are some more of these ‘erased’ drawings in my sketchbook.
Erasures (October 14, 2013)
Whenever I go out on the weekends I usually bring my little Moleskin sketchbook with me. This sketchbook is 3.5 inches by 5.5 inches and fits right in my pocket. I also carry a mechanical pencil and an eraser. Lately, rather than drawing with the pencil, I have been laying down a bunch of graphite – then smearing it around with a napkin or coaster to make a nice graphite ground. (By the way, if you take one of those beer coasters and rip it in half – you have a really good stump with which to smear the graphite).
After smearing the graphite into the paper – I then start drawing with the eraser. In this way I am actually taking graphite away rather than adding graphite to the paper. I like this way of working and will start posting some of these little ‘erasures’ here.
Golden Spiral (September 30, 2013)
I was asked to create a design in chalk on the sidewalk of the university’s main campus. As an educational exercise I decided to construct the Golden Spiral. These golden spirals occur in nature as the growth pattern of nautilus shells and spiral galaxies. These spirals are based on Fibonacci numbers and Phi and are related to growth patterns in nature. Below are two photos of the chalk drawing in progress that I created.
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Wigwag Larnyx #4 (September 18, 2013)
Here is the final cartoon that I produced in this series.
Wigwag Larynx #3 (September 10, 2013)
Here is another one of the surrealist cartoons created but never published anywhere.
