Here is a set of multiples that I did for a show last year. They are my submission for this week's Illustration Friday theme, "Multiple." I constructed them first by doing preliminary drawings on gesso-covered canvases. In making these first drawings, I played with various tints of white. Then I stretched and pinned drawings done on pieces of vellum on top of them. I love the milky translucency of the vellum and how it distorts the drawings beneath them... creating ghosts peeking through and changing the surface drawings. With a few of them, I floated collage elements in as well. I've been meaning to do more... it's all a question of never having time.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Illustration Friday: Multiple...
Here is a set of multiples that I did for a show last year. They are my submission for this week's Illustration Friday theme, "Multiple." I constructed them first by doing preliminary drawings on gesso-covered canvases. In making these first drawings, I played with various tints of white. Then I stretched and pinned drawings done on pieces of vellum on top of them. I love the milky translucency of the vellum and how it distorts the drawings beneath them... creating ghosts peeking through and changing the surface drawings. With a few of them, I floated collage elements in as well. I've been meaning to do more... it's all a question of never having time.
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7 comments:
Utterly cool!!! The drawing on the back of the vellum makes for a dynamite effect! Love the rivets or nails too.
These are really haunting, Andrew, like a cabinet of curiosities, with a ghostly quality... outstanding!
This is a strong series - it has both an earthy and ethereal quality. Lovely work!
I admire them.
Please find time to do more.
I like the play on the color white.
Great serie of works, really nice!
YOU ROCK! these are entrancing
Thanks everyone for your kind words! It really means a lot to me. I'm going to try and make some time to make some more. I've got a couple of projects lined up that I want to tackle before I dive back in... but we'll see.
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