7/11/2023 0 Comments Moku hanga paper sizesOne option would be to simply copy it exactly-there are ways to do that and I could reproduce almost exactly my original drawing. I pulled out a few blocks, some tracing paper, and started to figure out how to interpret this. I've gone back often to that notebook and always thought about turning this into a very simple print. This one was a simple idea of basic shapes and primary colors, so I drew a rough square, a simple triangle, and-cramped as I was on the tray table- a quasi- circle.I added a caption, "Some of my favorite Shapes, Hanging out together" and thus it became another etegami-It was too awkward to color it in on the plane, so I turned the page and filled the sketchbook with many other similar drawings. I usually draw a rectangle, the imaginary "boundary" of my image and fill it with a couple of lines or shapes. I often fill a sketchbook quickly, filling a page with shapes or doodles, and letting the visual forms trigger ideas or lead to the next drawing. I did this little 4" x 6" pencil sketch on a long flight back from Japan three years ago. The streaking at the top, is from a little too much size-the glue and alum that I added to the paper. The paper size is 7" X 8" and 20 copies went to that print exchange. The format was driven by my participation in the BarenForums latest exchange (91). I will never walk on water, but trying not to be noticed, or running away at the first sign from real or imagined conflict, are habits I recognize. But if you get too close, or startle them with a brusque movement or noise, they will explode from almost underfoot, and rocket away, zig-zagging across the field and will cross a long distance before they will glance back to make sure they're not being followed. They blend in to the tall grass and branches, and hunker down, immobile, and are almost impossible to see. But the hares of our fields first do their best not to get noticed. When almost every other animal you meet wants to eat or hurt you, it's no surprise that running away is the most natural response to almost any stimulus. And that sort of made the background obvious. So my white rabbits kept getting beige fur and black ear and tail highlights, and the brown rabbit was never really dark or real enough.īut then I remembered it was the year of the WATER rabbit. I had wanted to create a busy background full of jerky marks of grass or reeds whizzing by-but the rabbits couldn't decide if they wanted to be white rabbits on a dark ground, or brown rabbits on a green field- and each time I tried to go one way, the rabbits would run back in the other direction. ![]() I wasn't planning on making a Chinese zodiac card this year.īut I started drawing rabbits, and hares, and more rabbits, until I filled a few pages of sketchbooks with running, jumping, grazing and flying "Thumpers". Fast Enought, 2023, 7" X 8" E.V.-edition size is 60 on sized Japanese machine-made washi.
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