April 09, 2005
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MFCSAHJOSEAFx2 (1-12)
MFCSAHJOSEAFx2 (1-12), 2005, HTML, 2800 x 1400 pixels each (source)
All of the HTML drawings I've made until this point were of dimensions that I was pretty confident would show on any monitor in its entirety. So these drawings came from a pretty simple idea: make large fields of color that will fill and span the monitor so that the viewer can't see the entire drawing, requiring searching the corners and across the field to see whatever details might be here. Why would I want to do that? I just wanted to see what would happen. In addition, there is a subject matter that I won't elaborate on that the letters in the titles and in the drawings refer to. This subject matter was a driver for the size of these drawings, and there are direct connections between this subject matter and whatever other drawn areas found in each drawing. So this series is of drawings that can't be seen at once, and are about something that I won't explain, and that probably, I'm guessing, can only be guessed at. It would not be very useful, considerate, or illuminating, probably, to culminate this short series of twelve drawings, as I often do, by collecting all twelve together to show here as HTML; they're just too huge (see the HTML version). So this is another case where small views as gifs made from screenshots are collected together for the culmination, giving a view not previously possible of what each drawing actually looks like without all the scrolling.
French Trail, Albums 5 & 6
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French Trail Album 5, 1-5, 2005, Pencil, watercolor & ink on paper, approx. 8.75 x 6.75" each (scanned), Private Collection
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French Trail Album 6, 1-5, 2005, Pencil, watercolor & ink on paper, approx. 8.75 x 6.75" each (scanned), Private Collection
Two more albums in the French Trail series. Each album has five drawings. Three albums were posted on 20050317, and another 20050325. In these two albums each drawing uses a different motif, contrasts between free and ruled lines, and free and ruled brushed watercolor, and all have the ruled black finishing line. Albums 5 and 6 are gifts, and will go into a folder made from the same paper on which all of these drawings are made- Rives BFK lightweight cream, a thin, sensitive rag printmaking paper that handles water media well, doesn't stand up to lots of erasure, has a beautiful cream color, and is not expensive. I've used this paper off and on since about 1978.