anika mari

After framing 11 pieces of art for my friend Anita, I definitely needed some creative down time. Ideas for drawings have come in fits and spurts lately, but I have come up with a few images that are worth sharing.

Working on a 6×6in piece of bristol, I doodled a little pattern that looks like pennants.

Sometimes a color combination will occur to me, and I’ll get hooked on it, and I’ll get no rest until I do something with those colors. In my mind, light pink and inky blue had to get on the same piece of paper. Overall it’s a very delicate drawing, and maybe the colors aren’t all that noticeable, but it fit the bill this time.

I also did some loose shadow drawings. I wasn’t totally committed to the process, and I ended up just scribbling them in my gridded sketchbook. That turned out to be a happy accident in a way, since the grid paper adds a dimension to the drawings that I quite like. I filled several pages, but a lot of them just seemed overly complicated to me. I started to color one in, but it wasn’t really going anywhere good, so I stopped.

There were a couple drawings that I kind of liked, even though there was a lot going on, but I couldn’t decide what colors to use, let alone how I wanted to color them in.

As they are, I think they look kind of interesting because of the bleed through from the previous pages drawings.

I did a drawing that was very experimental that turned out kind of, meh.

Despite a few false starts, a few made the grade and got colored in.

Heart Map (can anyone guess the source object of this drawing??)

Green on Squares

uncharted

scattered

The last drawing is not strictly a shadow drawing, but it was inspired by them. After producing so many overwrought scribbles, I wanted to draw something calmer. Something with transparency.

As a whole I like the drawings, especially as a set.

I’m shifting gears a little bit in my art and work life. I’ve decided to take the summer to learn how to build websites, so that’s been taking up a lot of my time lately. Making art is still a priority, and I hope to work it into my schedule once I get a handle on the basics of html & css. I might be backtracking into the past a little bit on this blog, reflecting on some art that’s been done for a while that I never wrote about before, but I should have some new stuff coming up too.