Sandra Cinto. She's working with line, often white line on top of a blue background. It reminds me a lot of the cosmos, or about water. If I had ever gotten around to doing it successfully, one of my intricate line drawings on a transparency with the cyanotype would have a lot in common with her work.
Will Lemon. On his website, his art is seperated into the categories of Blockprint, Drawings and Tapestries. I came across his work in a magazine 5 or 6 years ago, and a tapestry of his called Snakeskin Battleship has been the desktop of my computer since around that time. Something about that piece in particular really spoke to me.
I'm so excited, because today I started drawing my lines with differing amounts of spaces between them, and started making new line shapes. I had dyed a bunch of watercolor paper with hydrogen peroxide and food dye and then cut my line shapes out, but now I'm really not sure what to do with them. Also, because the watercolor paper is so heavy, I was beginnning to worry that I couldn't attatch them with shine colle. Anyway, I had printed my wood block onto contact paper and never used it for anything, it was just hanging out in the painty room in my apartment. When I stuck it over the drawings I did with the lines earlier today, you can see both layers at the same time with I think looks really nifty. Also, I could use the contact paper as a sticker over the watercolor cutouts that I have to held securely attatch them over drawings. I know that its not the same as shine colle, but I feel they are philosophically related techniques as they are uniting two layers to each other to make a whole, and I'm very excited about it.
Except I can't find contact paper anywhere. Tonight I ran out to Walmart, Staples, Michaels, Jo-Ann Fabrics, Martins and Giant Eagle and no one sells it. I was told that I should refer to it as "Shelf Liner" and that its a dying paper that people don't have a use for anymore. Anyone have any other ideas on where I might find some?
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