Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Garden as Inspiration

My hostas are dying off turning from the beautiful dark green to sickly shades of yellow. Time to trim them back and place the forgotten leaves into the bin to be recycled. I have used these leaves most recently to start a new body of work, drawing charcoal on fabric. I enjoy drawing on fabric and paper. My favorite paper is vellum. I love the translucently of the material. It also reacts differently as the pencil travels across the surface. There is a different type of tension between the pencil and page, then with regular drawing paper. I also like the way that the eraser works on the surface of the vellum. You can skim many layers of graphite off the surface. Leaving whatever value you choose to leave of graphite.