Lots of Bodies

I worked very hard last week to produce a decent body of work for this Sunday’s Hello Every Sunday. I managed about two drawings per day and it took about 2 to 3 hours per day to do. I used ordinary writing ink on ordinary paper. What I liked a lot were the textures and surprises that the medium produced on paper, telling its own story over my drawing. We try to control the medium so much to the point where restricting and restraining it kills off its energy and spirit. Here, I am allowing the ink to dance along with the drawn figures and create its own story.

My references for these figures were from Elizabeth Heyert’s beautiful photographs titled The Sleepers, where she photographed sleeping people and projected them on ruined walls in a ghost town in Sicily. Her photographs are huge, powerful images, my drawings based on them are small intimate studies of the human form.