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| 'Seedling' |
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| 'Sweet Water' |
These are two new charcoal drawings on amate, a Mexican handmade paper, that I recently finished. Each 4' x 4'. I've been working on them since August. I bought 2 4' x 8' pieces of amate in Patzcuaro this summer and cut them in half. It's a challenge working this large in charcoal - but it pulls you in, its a sensuous medium, fingers, rags, eraser, a push/pull of light and dark. Always moving, always changing. Charcoal is messy, it's difficult to really 'fix' it completely even though I do spray it with a fixative. But I love the rich blacks, the contrast, the cool greys and all in between. I based both pieces on some smaller images I created in Oaxaca. Interesting how they transformed into this gran scale.
They are showing in Luna Gallery's December Exhibition in Mazatlan,
Drawings: Line & Form.
