FINAL DRAWING PREP WORK: as of March 25th — here is a brainstorming ideas page, a gallery of 5×7 thumbnails that came out of those ideas, then three 10×14 sketches of the idea I like the most, to play with layout/cropping, types of media, and paper toning. Will likely need another test page to work out more of the background and how I will incorporate erasures, fading images, etc.
cropping/layout. Trial attaching eraser rubbings — not very successful. To come back to this. Perhaps draw them on, or research other glue methods.Testing out graphite and tea stains. Not liking the tea stains. Liking the graphite for the figures, with ink, charcoal, and pastels for darker values and small bits of intense colour. Not sure will keep the piano player — instead include more background furniture and room features that I can blur, erase, or alter out to play up the memory theme. Could put sheet music for “As Time Goes By” on the piano. instead
WORK IN PROGRESS: Don’t know if you wanted us to take photos in progress, but I did — so I include 3 of them here…
