I've been planning doing some roller paintings for several years after seeing Brion Gysin's roller paintings.
I bought a couple of foam rubber rollers at Dollar Tree sometime last year and just this month finally put some paint on paper.
They came out very well, I think. I've purchased a couple of Speedball brayers and will carve patterns on them in the next few weeks. I also have several large 6' x 6+' canvases to work on.
Stay tuned.
I started a subscription to Vanity Fair in the summer of 2021 with the goal of drawing from each issue.
Unfortunately, I let six issues back up before I started drawing 12 pages from each issue in January 2022. As soon as I started the first issue, the latest issue showed up in my mailbox. I was already seven issues behind!
I knuckled down and finished all seven issues just in time for the Hollywood 2022 issue to arrive in March.
So, I could do the eight covers plus four more pages but that would have left a lot of interesting pages undrawn. I'll just do the regular eleven drawings plus the eight cover. I've got a month. Piece of cake.
Didn't factor in procrastination or fear of the blank page and fell behind. Ended up doing four or five drawings a day on my drawing days.
I had a fear of doing that many drawings because I felt that the last drawings would be sloppy and less accomplished than the earlier drawings when I was fresh. Not so. File under: An excuse to work less.
I'm drawing all of the pieces in the project with my non-dominate left hand. For some reason, I seem to be better able to work out perspective and spatial relationships.
Most of this issue's drawings were done in pencil and then inked and the pencil marks erased. Also, I used the cheapest possible paper to put together the 12-page 6" x 9" sketchbooks I've been working in. A mistake because of all the bleed through. Using a better mixed-media paper beginning with the April issue. Mixed-media paper will also let me experiment with watercolors.
Here we have the Nicole Kidman cover. I edited the original drawing in Photoshop to make her body less elongated. Much happier with this version.
