This pattern of stripes is demarcated by wavering
graphite pencil lines.
Not exact matches
When you write or draw with a
pencil, the
graphite (the «lead» of the
pencil) slides off in thin layers to leave a trail — the
line on the paper.
The average
pencil holds enough
graphite to draw a
line about 35 miles long or to write roughly 45,000 words.
We can blend in the coloured
pencil lines, but with a
graphite pencil this is much harder and our hare will always have a little cartoon outline!
Lewis, the youngest artist in the exhibition, also divides his compositions but with a strong
line, using
pencil and
graphite powder to create sooty surfaces reminiscent of the grit of the city, while maintaining a connection to the modernist grid.
The uncovered imagery is then reinterpreted through the
lines, smudges, drawings, and drips of ink,
pencil, and
graphite that Daborn applies.
Colette's familiar
graphite on paper drawings achieved through repetitive mark making, micro and macro wavelengths of
pencil lines, and Klappert's hand cut designs, make the most minimalist statement, the controlled hand of both the artists achieving something deliberate and obscured.
The
graphite lines, rarely thicker than a
pencil point, remain, like scratches on skin, like reminders of humanity in an ethereal world.
The pages of the
graphite drawings are heavily worked with dense crosshatched
pencil lines resulting in a near - reflective, active surface.
They are constrained only by the thin, freely drawn
graphite lines rendered in
pencil atop the white surfaces.