Blue Green Blue Green Blue

The 3″x10″ mixed media drawing floats in the center of a white 22″x30″ sheet of Rives BFK. This drawing is from a series of four that explores transparency, pattern, repetition, and layers. Science and my environment are important influences and I am concerned with developing and building upon a vocabulary of marks in my work. I enjoy letting the image form intuitively while responding to smells, textures and the visual qualities of my mediums. In Blue Green Blue Green Blue, several lines of the same marks are repeated several times and layered in different drawing mediums and colors. The lines overlap, but are not registered which reveal the effects of the texture and color combinations. The bottom layers peek through the to the top and the darker, more bold top layers diffuse some of the bright blues, green and yellows from beneath. Beeswax is arbitrarily added as a top layer over the whole image and lends its own color and diffusion to the layers sealed below it’s waxy surface.