For many years now I have been making drawings of what I would hope to make in large painting format as you have seen many times before. Some in new styles that connect with what you already knew. After six books of drawings I had decided to finally share them, but at that same time I had been attaching them to my painting/viewing wall to get to see them as a group, which I had yet to do. Usually I keep them in their drawing book, but recently had begun drawing on loose card stock which had roughly the same weight as the bound paper I was using. Those drawings had been brightening up my wall with their wonderful colors and shapes. As I was visiting them the idea came to me to try one thing I had dreamed of for many years in my studio which was to tile a painting into multiple pages but be the same size as my biggest paintings that I am creating at the time. So I began attaching rows of paper together to create a large format drawing of a version of one of my large paintings. As I created this paper world, I wanted to make sure it would be not only easy to store but easy to make. Since I would have only one panel to color at a time, I definitely didn’t want to spend all those hours standing up and coloring on a drywall substrate. Hence the beginning.
Beyond Identity
Colored Pencil on 49 Joined Sheets of 8.5 X 11” Paper.
Image is 72 X 52”
Once the initial drawing was completed as you can see in the last picture, the work began its 10 day process of coloring in each panel. I’ve never been involved with a work that was so intense in its making. Usually the wrapping of a painting takes two maybe three days depending on everything going on at the time. One thing this work truly did was light a fire to create even more like this. Which you will see in the new posts.
Enjoy!
