Scribbles with Pink and Purple

I am very excited tonight. First of all, I got this fancy new paper which is black and advertises itself as being ideal for pastels, which is the medium I seem to have chosen to work in on a more or less daily basis. The only problem with this paper is that it does not advertise its weight. It’s pretty heavy though. And a pad of 25 sheets cost like $25. Well maybe only $24, but it sounds better to say $25. Anyway, not that I think it really matters to give all the details about a paper. Especially because also today while I was at one of the two art supply stores I visited today I overheard the art supply guy tell another customer about how the big pads of paper that say “Vellum” all big across their fronts are not really and for truly vellum, which is actually that stuff that you will remember from your architectural drafting classes which is semi-transparent and very smooth, like mylar, which is another name for a material which those of us who have taken architectural drafting classes will associate with something different than probably most people. So anyway, all the works I have previously indicated having been done on vellum were actually done on vellum surfaced bristol, or perhaps you could say bristol treated with a vellum surface. I would probably say “bristol” and leave it at that. Or, “paper.”

Oh but so in addition to the black paper which is ideal for pastels, I also got a pink soft pastel, a pinkish purple soft pastel, a sort of frozen whale blue soft pastel, and this more expensive Rembrant brand bright, or as we say in art speak, “permanent” red pastel, because they didn’t have red in the soft pastels I have come to like so much.

Also, a few days ago I reserved a bunch of obscure Brian Eno CDs on the Minuteman Library Network and they came in today and I have been listening to them. Right now I am listening to “The Drop” but also I have been listening to “January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now” which is really really great if you like made up bell sounds and “Evening Star” and “Equatorial Star” by Eno and Fripp. Great great stuff. Seems that they inspire scribbling, though.

About the work: Well I will tell you there was a whole other piece under this one, with plants and flowers and all that fun stuff but the scribbling just overtook me and suddenly it was a work about making a particular kind of line. It remained a work about making a particular kind of line for quite a while, and then it got a more different kind of scribbling treatment over the top.